Arlene s career as a juggler ends
Updated / Saturday, 1 May 2021
10:56
In his final piece of online analysis, former RTÉ News Northern Editor, Tommie Gorman, looks back on the career of outgoing First Minister, Arlene Foster, and asks what next for power sharing in Northern Ireland.
For much of her five and a half years as DUP leader, Arlene Foster has been waiting for the sky to fall.
When the end came, as so happens in politics, it was brutal.
A number of times in a past life she was one of the very few who sat up late with the then leader, Peter Robinson. One more heave was brewing in the DUP civil war between those who yearn for the past and those who worry about the future.