Brian Feeney

YOU can hardly say he departs ‘trailing clouds of glory’ to quote a phrase from Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality. Not when senior figures in his party have been briefing against him for months and the clouds swirling around him are unanswered questions about Nama, and about his political judgment in the last few months such as rotating ministers or the appointment as a junior minister, someone who had no votes and had never even spoken in the assembly. ‘Disbelief’ was the most charitable reaction in the DUP. It’s not the way it used to b[...]