The Irish Examiner View: Tribal posturing

Few of us reach the allotted three score and ten without making mistakes. Some are significant, others less so, but all are revealing.

Last week’s criticism from Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister, Michelle O’Neill, of her colleague, Stormont health minister Robin Swann, for asking for British army help to fight the coronavirus, is such a moment. Mr Swann, understanding the sensitivity of the situation, said he hoped his decision would not be “considered divisive”.