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So further to my last comment, the DUP's Sammy Wilson did a typically knockabout turn in the chamber on the topic of Sinn Fein ministers being neither here, nor there. During an exchange with the East Antrim MP, Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd clarified that his colleague Fra McCann had NOT submitted a motion talking about Northern Ireland. Instead Sinn Fein maintains their original wording was changed by the Stormont Business Office.

All this has shades of the old Kevin McAleer sketch about a football match in which "the Province" plays "the Mainland". In the chamber, MLAs played it for laughs but it will be interesting to see if these old terminological traps undermine the "compartmentalisation" of old style politics by Executive ministers which I've noted previously.

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