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“SHAME,” read one placard adorned with pictures of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, and the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris. “Send the DUP to Rwanda,” proclaimed another banner. These were just two of the invectives held aloft on 24 January during Northern Ireland’s biggest workers’ strike in half a century.1 As well as protesting about their pay, the strikers were angry that Northern Ireland has been without a devolved government for almost two years. The DUP had boycotted the executive in a protest over Brexit arrangements for the region since February 2022. However, less than a week after the rallies in many towns and cities, Donaldson announced that his party had at last agreed a return to Stormont, the seat of devolved government, pending the enactment of a deal agreed with Downing Street. It means the probable implementation of various plans and strategies aimed at shoring up the struggling health service and the release

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