Irish Examiner view: Will Donaldson address DUP tribalism?

Early test for new leader of party.

Will new DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson want, or be able, to rein in the extreme elements of his party?

It is not entirely clear if new DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson wants to, or can, rein in the wilder elements of his party but events have presented him with an early test.

European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic will be questioned by Stormont’s executive office committee today over post-Brexit arrangements that have angered unionists. Those arrangements were agreed to avert the reimposition of a hard border on this island.