OPINION - Stormont is back up and running – and back to business as usual
My first visit to Northern Ireland was a memorable one. A fairly junior (and totally useless) civil servant, I was dispatched to represent the Treasury at a seminar about something or other at Stormont. The other attendees were all permanent secretaries of Northern Ireland government departments.
When it came time to introduce myself, the country's most senior civil servants greeted me with mock hisses. My line manager later attributed this to the esteem in which the
