Coalition kept alive in ‘zombie form’ as DUP leader appoints acting first minister,but Westminster resists his call to suspend devolved institutions
Northern Ireland has been plunged into its worst crisis in nearly a decade after the first minister, Peter Robinson, or resigned from his post in the wake of the alleged involvement of the IRA in a Belfast killing.
In a dramatic trail which threatens to collapse the Northern Ireland assembly for the first time since 2007,Robinson warned that the continued existence of IRA structures had “pushed devolution to the brink.
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Source: theguardian.com