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THE NEW LEADER of the Ulster Unionist Party has urged the DUP and Sinn Fein to keep the “show on the road” in terms of the powersharing government in Northern Ireland.
Days ahead of DUP leader Edwin Poots’ expected unveiling of his new ministerial team, and amid speculation over whether Sinn Fein will support the nomination of new ministers without a commitment over Irish language legislation, Doug Beattie said the Executive “has to last”.
There is also speculation that the next Assembly elections may be called before they are due to take place in May 2022.
“It (the Executive) has to last, it has got to last for the people of this part of the United Kingdom, our Executive needs to keep going,” Mr Beattie told RTE’s The Week In Politics programme.
“So there’s an onus on the DUP, and there is an onus on Sinn Fein also to be generous with this because we are in a degree of instability, and they need to carry on and keep the Executive on the tracks until the elections in May next year.
“Then in May next year people will be able to vote as to what way they want to go forward from that moment onwards. But the last thing we need is for the Executive to collapse, for there to be even more instability here in Northern Ireland.
“Our people have suffered enough, it’s time politicians just held their ground, gave a little bit to each other, were a little bit more gracious and just make sure that we can provide for the people of Northern Ireland, particularly that we are coming off a pandemic which has absolutely decimated our lives.
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“The DUP and Sinn Fein really need to do a bit of mature politics here and just keep this show on the road.”
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Mr Beattie described a “tumultuous couple of weeks in unionism” but said the UUP had gone about their leadership handover in a “very different way” to the DUP.
“We have done everything face to face with our previous leader and then we have gone out to the media… and we’ve put our message across,” he said.
“We have done a smooth transition.
“Unfortunately with the DUP it has been a bit more fractious and that’s not good for Northern Ireland… we need stability here more than anything else.
“As for anybody who wants to come to the Ulster Unionist Party… we are an open party, we are a welcoming party… but it’s not a home for people who just have a different view, or want to come and settle in here. You have to share our vision for the future, you have to share our values.
“But I’ll not take anyone on board just as a home because they are disgruntled with the DUP.”
Mr Beattie said he will speak to everyone, including the Irish Government, the EU and the UK Government.
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Best of luck Shelley and all the other leaving cert students.
You are correct that these results are not the end of the world, they are a stepping stone, question tomorrow will bring is which direction you will step towards.
I did my leaving 7 years ago, and still remember the fear in the weeks leading up to the results. I didn’t get what I wanted (perfectly respectable points etc, but 15 off what I needed), but I wanted to stress to ALL the LC students that there is ALWAYS another way in to the area you want. I ended up doing a PLC which fed into a degree course, and now I have better degree than I would have gotten had I gotten the points.
Please don’t get too bogged down in tomorrow, it really isn’t the end of the world.
Good luck to you all!!
If this was an essay for the English Leaving Cert Paper One, I’d have given her about a B3.
Just wait until all of these naive, apprehensive sods have to fend for themselves in the real world. A bit of tension over Leaving Cert results will seem like a walk in the park by comparison with struggling to get a job, pay rent and afford food and bills for oneself. Enjoy the scrounger days while you can, teenagers!
Dinosaurs –
Skinny at one end
Fat in the middle
and skinny at the far end. Full stop.
Sorry – I just thought it would be better to say something more sensible than the crap Orly has to say…………. get a life child ….. and perhaps a friend – you’re going to need some with that negative attitude………
I had all but forgotten P.C.L.M.! For one thing, the headline of the article; that which gives it “Purpose”, is a sentence which doesn’t make sense and doesn’t fit the appropriate criteria for a headline, displaying a lack of capital letters and questionable syntax. I should read:
“Fearing Expectations of Failure – How the Wait for the Leaving Certificate Results Feels” or something like that. What is there is just appalling.
Moreover, the “Wednesday” theme is unconvincing and juvenile – a Junior Cert tactic, perhaps; never something you would employ for your Leaving Certificate or at third level.
Peter, not having friends is definitely the biggest problem faced in the real world, after the Leaving Certificate. Oh woe, how I wish I had a friend!
Agreed with the above poster that you’ve nothing to worry about if this is how you write. Come Monday afternoon, results will be gone and done and dusted.
the bell curve is there for a reason. statistically, everyone wants to do the same courses. if you want to be different, then you have to think outside the bell curve. would be interested to know what your top choices were on cao form were?
I’m getting my LC results tomorrow too. Oddly enough, I didn’t have that familiar looming feeling right until yesterday, I always thought I did much better than I needed to. Now I’m not so sure. Point is my results didn’t suddenly become worse overnight but my attitude changed, upon seeing nervous Leaving Certs and reading wonderful articles such as this. One thing you got to do is feel auspicious about tomorrow and don’t succumb to general panic.
It will all work out in the end, if it’s not working out it’s not the end!
Funny…I know more people who’ve graduated from TCD who are now out of work than other colleges like DIT/DCU etc. Maybe if their courses were slightly more applicable to modern industry it wouldn’t be so….
Am I the only one who keeps having nightmares about tomorrow? The last one I failed everything except for Irish and…erm ..footing turf…which I got an A1 in…I think i’m spending too much time in the bog
The leaving cert is out dated. College students do assessments and exams throughout the year plus are able to repeat the exam again a couple of months later if they fail but we put our young kids through 5 years to 6 years of secondary school just so they can sit one exam – have a bad day and fail and have to repeat the full year.
Come on, if the college structure is good enough for our future doctors, lawyers why can’t it be used in secondary school?
How many teens have committed suicide over the leaving cert? One is too much!
I am very glad you wrote this. One extremely high stakes exam can not accurately measure the knowledge, intelligence, or strengths of a person, yet it really can effect the rest of your life. It is completely unreasonable. I am writing an article about depression and suicide caused by leaving cert stress and results, and would love to hear from people.
If this article is any indicator, I’m sure you’ll do just fine. One thing to remember though is in some industries, your leaving cert does follow you around! No matter how much under graduate or post grad studies you do, companies still ask about your leaving cert results and from speaking to my recruitment department in work, it is a factor for applications. I’m speaking from experience in Accounting and I have a masters in the subject.
Haha, so do I! Only recently I dreamed I was being made sit the English Paper 2, but hadn’t read the texts!! Good luck to everyone, unfortunately the nerves are a rite of passage :(
The Leaving Cert. has been around for a while but most useful things we know have been around for much longer and evolved over millions of years. LC is a fairly short chapter in the big book. Basically, what I’m saying is that in the big picture, it isn’t significant at all.
I really enjoyed reading this piece , very well written and it brought back my own memories of the leaving cert results looming….that was 31 years ago…. Wow ! Well my son is waiting for his results tomorrow and I have no doubt that he did his best and it all boils down to the points system and will his efforts gain him a place in his chosen college/ University? We will have to wait and see. . . .
Good luck to every one who are awaiting their results and remember it is a stepping stone not the end , but a beginning to moving forward.
I remember only to well the fear in me the day I got my results 4 years ago. The 10 minute walk down to the school that felt over an hour, all the way getting phone calls. It seemed for every person happy there was one disappointed. When I got down I went in to the vice principle to pick up that brown envelope and sat in the tea room chatting my friends and after 2 cups of tea I finally gathered the courage to open it! Thankfully I got my points and went to NUIG. I was thrilled! I checked it the next year and I would not have gotten into the same course a year later had I tried. I would have missed out by 5 points!
Through out the summer before that day was the best of my life so far! No cares, no more school and if I’d not gotten into NUIG I would have been in AIT. I wasn’t pushed at the time
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