We are still living with the partition games played by the Long Fellow

THE biggest surprise about the continuing inability to form a government at Stormont was that anybody was surprised.

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Ian Paisley is not only the oldest dog left in Irish politics, but also probably the foremost architect of the Northern disaster. Yet, with our history, we are in no position to throw stones.

During his political career Eamon de Valera shamelessly and recklessly exploited the partition issue for his own political purposes with disastrous consequences for the whole island.