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INTERVIEW: Minister role ended in frustration: Claire Sugden
The East Derry MLA feels an opportunity was lost through Stormont s 2017 collapse.
Claire Sugden says the Executive formed by the late Martin McGuinness and Arlene Foster was an opportunity for progress.Foster
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Liam Tunney speaks to East Derry MLA
Claire Sugden about succeeding her mentor in the constituency, the recent violence and missed opportunities before the Assembly s collapse in January 2017.
Liam Tunney: Could you tell us why you got into politics?
Claire Sugden: I went to Queen s University and got my undergraduate in politics, and then when I completed that, I contacted my local MLA, who at that point was David McClarty.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s sense of humour brought smiles across the Stormont Assembly chamber as members shared anecdotes of their encounters with him.
MLAs gathered for a special sitting on Monday to remember the duke who died on Friday at the age of 99.
As well as tributes and condolences, there were lighter moments with tales of fools not being suffered, the questioning of life experience and even tie knot queries.
DUP MLA Edwin Poots (NI Assembly/PA)
DUP MLA Edwin Poots told MLAs he empathised with how “attempts at humour could become gaffes”.
“The duke was known for his sharp mind, for his wittiness, and sometimes that got him into trouble so his quips could become gaffes … and as someone who does that occasionally myself, I can appreciate the quandary that he finds himself in, you want to engage with people and you want to lighten an atmosphere and sometimes it just doesn’t work right,” he told MLAs.
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Fourteen police officers have been injured during another night of disgraceful rioting in Belfast.
The worst violence on Friday night happened in the loyalist Tiger s Bay area and petrol bombs were also thrown in the nearby nationalist New Lodge.
It was the 12th night of disorder in recent days, during which time a total of 88 police officers have been hurt.
Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has warned against a spiral back to violence in Northern Ireland.
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image captionA car was set alight and rammed against a police vehicle during the disorder
On Saturday, the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, he urged political leaders to step forward and play our part and ensure that this cannot happen .
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