thick and fast now, we expect all the results to be declared by late afternoon or early evening. well, at this very early stage in the account for the northern ireland assembly election, the party, which is by far the happiest is the cross community alliance party, it is expected to make significant gains, taking seats in some constituencies where they have never won before, moving from fifth in the stormont pecking order to at least third and maybe even, on a very good day, into second place. the nationalist sdlp and the ulster unionist party seem to be pretty nervous about how things are going, so where does that leave the two biggest parties? for the last five stormont elections, for 20 years, the dup have won the most seats and sinn fein have come second. if, as polls have suggested, sinn fein, first at this time, that would mean michelle 0 neill, the party vice president, would be in line to be the first ever irish