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The DUP has wildly exaggerated the harms done by power sharing – and now Northern Ireland is slipping out of its grasp
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Sun 2 May 2021 11.14 EDT
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The Democratic Unionist party had a front-page ad in the Belfast News Letter yesterday. “This union works,” it declared. “Lets build for the #next100.” As the first minister and leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster should have been leading this week’s celebrations for the centenary of the establishment of the Northern Irish state. Instead, the DUP has gone to war with itself. Foster has been humiliatingly ousted and the future of the “precious union” has been put at risk, not by republicans, but by Northern Ireland’s self-proclaimed most loyal sons.