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.”
