BBC News
By Gareth Gordon
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image captionThe backdrop for recent Stormont briefings has certainly changed but have the relationships?
You can see why Sinn Féin like holding the post-executive news conferences on the Hill of the O'Neill. As names go they couldn't make it up.
Mind you Arlene Foster seems equally at home with the arrangement.
The decision to take the weekly showpieces off the hill at Stormont on to a hill above Dungannon, County Tyrone, seems popular with everyone in the two biggest parties at least, and appears to have coincided with an uplift in the always-brittle relationship.