Ken Clarke or Baron Clarke has accused @duponline of using the protocol as an “excuse” for not joining @niexecutive “under Sinn Fein leadership”. @NigelDoddsDUP denied the allegation
Gareth Gordon
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Gareth Gordon
@BBCGarethG
BBC Northern Ireland Political Correspondent.
Joined April 2011
- PM Theresa May arrives for Brexit JMC meeting in Cardiff. Reporter asks if she'll be holding Nicola Sturgeons hand
- A shipyard worker has just shouted “Save our shipyard” in Irish to cheers from language activists. Boris has achieved something in his first morning in N.I.
- Early nominee for taxi driver of the year is the one in London I inadvertently handed a Bank of Ireland £20 note to. He was delighted. “That’s cool. I’ve never had a Northern Ireland banknote.” I told him that wasn’t the usual reaction.
- Yesterday on his 6th visit to NI since becoming Taoiseach @campaignforleo went to @OrangeOrder spent enormous time shaking hands with real people in an area which was not exactly home ground. Last time Theresa May came she visited a cowshed outside Bangor
- One of those days I’m afraid. I knew Big Ken Reid for 42 years which is frightening. We disagreed about Van Morrison and Everton but about nothing else. He had a story for every topic, most of which I believed. Rest easy big man…you will be missed
- To those who don’t like us reporting worst case scenarios being projected by our Health Minister and his officials I have news - we don’t like it either. But that’s what they’re saying so that’s what we report. They change their mind we’ll report that too. More happily
- .@BeattieDoug says @uuponline will NOT sign @duponline petition of concern to block Integrated Education Bill. It would be an abuse of mechanism to protect minorities
- Martin McGuinness watching on via his portrait as history is made at Stormont..
- Edward O’Neill, who survived the UVF Dublin bombings in which his father died, has sent an angry e-mail to @M_AndersonSF copying in every MLA 1/3
- David Trimble was like no other politician I ever dealt with. You never - and I can’t emphasise this enough - knew what you were going to get. But his courage, both physical and psychological, was immense. We hear a lot about the GFA. Without him there’d have been no GFA.
- The Stormont Cycle: 1. Election 😉 2. Looming crisis 😢 3. Crisis ☹️ 4. Armageddon 😡 5. Talks 🤨 6. Executive 👏 7. Repeat 👀
- .@RobinSwannMoH tells @bbcnewsline he’s “taking advice” over the attack on him by Van Morrison and Ian Paisley. As for the MPs claim it was parody he says “I can assure you as I assured him that there’s no-one in our house laughing over it.”
