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I think unionists are having some kind of competition about who can come up with the best insult for Caitriona Ruane. Back in January this blog cautioned Sammy Wilson about his use of a Mr Bean sobriquet. Sammy and Mr Bean

Now Mervyn Storey has used the once in four years opportunity to describe our Education Minister as a "political spinster" who has let February 29th go by without making a proposal to her Assembly committee on the vexed question of post primary transfer. Mervyn says "there have been no flowers, no rings, no soft lighting, no mood music, no wooing of the committee, no courtship, and no proposals from the Minister – just the usual silence" (which begs the question, if Caitriona had popped the question would Mervyn say yes?).

Anyway, forget the insults, what unionists want to know is will Caitriona Ruane be reshuffled? For the definitive answer I turned to her nominating officer, Gerry Adams, who I have just interviewed for tomorrow's Inside Politics.

Apart from asking him about the Education Minister's future, I asked about the transition process in the DUP, the Mairead Farrell commemoration, and whether he agrees with a motion on the clar (or agenda) for his party's Ard Fheis which calls on Sinn Fein to appoint joint presidents, one from each side of the border.

For all his answers you can tune in to Inside Politics at 12.45pm tomorrow on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Ulster.

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