Northern Ireland remains in crisis, claims republican

One of Ireland’s most hard-line republican politicians today claimed the current suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly marked “the chronic instability of English rule in Ireland“.

Ruairi O Bradaigh, head of Republican Sinn Féin – a faction that broke away when Gerry Adams adopted a more political role for the mainstream party in the mid-1980s- also declared “the artificial means cobbled together to administer an artificial statelet remains in crisis“.