nor nationalist. alliance is set to move up from fifth place to third. its leader believes that shows how northern ireland is moving on from its years of conflict. i think itjust reflects the changed place that northern ireland is. i mean, in 1998 when we had the good friday agreement, it was about trying to manage our divisions. but what i think the vote for alliance shows is that people have bigger aspirations than that. they want to move beyond division and focus on delivery. but there was disappointment for the democratic unionists, who won the last five assembly elections. the dup has come under pressure from a more hardline unionist party and is likely to lose its place at the top. i think that the divided nature of unionism in this election has meant that, whilst the overall unionist vote is strong, we re not winning extra seats because those votes are too widely spread, and i think there are lessons to be drawn from this for unionism. the final results won t be known for sure u