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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 14/08/2026

With both the Fleadh and Féile last week, Belfast was hopping – and the nationalist community there feeling more empowered vibrant than ever. So why hasn't that fed through to its politics – and why is there open touting of Stormont being pulled down again? This week's column for @thejournal.ie:

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Gavan Reilly: 37% of the time, Stormont hasn’t existed

Stormont is stuck in a malaise, with both lead parties ebbing in the polls, and new fears of another collapse. How has it come to this?

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mexicancat2024.bsky.social @mexicancat2024.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lough Neagh symbolises the damage Stormont Executive inertia, incompetence and lobby influence, causes. It’s not fit for purpose, a total waste of money and needs to go back to democratic basics. SF and the DUP hate eachother. Can’t force them to work together, it’s not necessary.

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Paul Rice @paulrice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Because it's impossible to get anything done. It will limp on to the next election, but that will surely be it. It's over in its current form.

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Máirtín Mac @martymac25.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The place is pointless when those who profess to have the best interests of the north at heart actively work against it in their own narrow interests with complete contempt for equality and parity of esteem.

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