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#GE16 and finally they’re off, let the postering begin…

Mick Fealty on February 3, 2016, 12:31 pm | Readers 343

So, it’s finally happened. The Taoiseach has announced the date of the general election in the south… …Friday February 26 – on Twitter and the phoney war was over – the election campaign is officially over way. Mr Kenny entered the Dáil chamber at 9:32 to make the briefest of statements to announce that it will not sit again until March 10. This is the first of what should be four big news events for Slugger this year. The others include the NI …

I don’t agree with [insert party name] … but that’s what politics is about

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on March 29, 2011, 11:30 am | Readers 5

Still image grab from Peter Robinson talking before DUP's 2011 Assembly Election launch

Ignore my first utterance in the embedded video. The DUP had assembled their 44 Assembly candidates in Ormeau Baths Gallery to launch their election campaign. Their manifesto won’t appear for another fortnight. I asked Peter Robinson about how their performance in delivering their 2007 manifesto and the ongoing need to produce them. Ormeau Baths’ last exhibition just finished at the weekend. But there was no sign of “Expecting the Terror” at this morning’s launch. (The “Terror” in question was “HMS …