Irish Examiner view: Poots' exit destabilises an already fragile Stormont

As one crisis is averted, another one appears

Edwin Poots during the nomination of Paul Givan as First Minister, in the Stormont Assembly in Parliament Buildings in Belfast. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

DUP leader Edwin Poots resigning on Thursday night ushered in a new crisis in Northern Ireland just as another seemed to have been averted.

The Northern Ireland Assembly was restored earlier in the day with the appointment of Paul Givan of the DUP and Michelle O’Neill of Sinn Féin as first and deputy first ministers respectively.