On Saturday, just as Sinn Féin’s long-standing president Gerry Adams was preparing his keynote ard fheis speech, senator Kathryn Reilly rushed to the stage to make two key announcements.

AT SOME point in her 11-year rule, Margaret Thatcher adopted the royal prerogative of referring to herself in the plural — as when she announced the birth of a child to her son Mark in 1989.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it and he gives prizes away for the best of them.