Taoiseach Micheál Martin (right) meeting with then DUP Leader Edwin Poots (centre) and Paul Givan at the Masonic Hall Government Buildings last June.
This afternoon.
Via RTE News:
The DUP’s Paul Givan is expected to announce his resignation as First Minister of the Stormont Assembly this afternoon.
It is understood he will step down with immediate effect.
Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson and other senior members of the DUP will meet in Belfast this afternoon.
It comes as a DUP MP has said that “events in Northern Ireland are teetering on the brink“.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Ian Paisley said: “We’re not months, weeks or days, but moments away from the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive and that is very sad but entirely predictable, and has been predicted from these benches for the past 13 months.”
Paul Givan expected to resign as NI First Minister (RTÉ)
elections are in may and the dup are screwed; the pro-eu parties will dominate and nutter unionism will have to take a back seat for a while.
Looks like a last throw of the dice for the Dupsters.
How dare Paul Givan be looking at Martin’s helmet.
YAWN
bunch o’ weirdos who love the sound of their own voices and the attention it attracts
who’d pick a fight with their own shadow
playing at running a protectorate colony micro state
who’ll still get their feed from the trough
teetering on the brink of what exactly?
lol
teetering on the brink of something new and therefore something to be feared and ridiculed and then burnt out.
NI is teetering on the brink.
Yeah, because you backward knuckle draggers that nobody likes pushed it there.
Bunch of utter cretins. Mehole Martin must feel at ease aming them.
The Assembly was due to stand down next month anyway for the May elections. So this is a pure gimmick for the elections as the DUP stock sinks in the opinion polls.