The Stormont Assembly will sit for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years today.
But it’s just a symbolic move, because it can’t fulfil its function without a power sharing executive in place.
The British Government will introduce new laws on abortion and same-sex marriage unless devolution is restored by midnight.
People Before Profit TD Brid Smith says the significance of what’s happening in the North can’t be understated:
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