The Stormont Theme Park
I'm just back from a weekend visit to Euro Disney, which prompted every politician I met today to make the same joke - "from one theme park to another!" One MLA's phone went off during our conversation, and I swear his ring tone was a tune by "Alvin and the Chipmunks". So we are all kids at heart.
The main games under discussion were the continuing competition to "dump the Maze". The Ulster Unionists have a motion calling for a development corporation to be put in charge of the site. Even republicans appear to be increasingly coming to the view that the multi sports stadium is "dead in the water".
Despite speculation that he might be the casualty of the forthcoming DUP ministerial reshuffle, Edwin Poots appeared in good form during his question time. Asked about the numbers of people who claimed to speak the Irish language in the last census, he scoffed at those who ticked the box just because they could say "Tiocfaidh Γ΅r lΓ΅ " . Who would have thought we would hear a DUP minister saying those three words from the despatch box?
Mr Poots claims to have been speaking to "leading professors" about a suitable definition of language skills which could be used for future censuses. Getting an agreement on that could prove harder than getting one on the Maze.
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