An end to the optimism?
Stormontspy told me off yesterday for reflecting a sense of optimism. Today it looks like normal service has been resumed with the Assembly and Executive Review Committee failing to meet, and Ian Paisley Jr. and John O'Dowd tearing strips off each other over what their two parties did or did not agree on devolving policing and justice.
We talked to David Simpson about his plans for a commemoration of the 1859 evangelical revival, which according to the Oxford Companion to Irish History involved a great deal of fervour including visions, prophecies and stigmata. I'm not sure that anything like that is scheduled for next year, but asked about the chances of the Executive being revived anytime soon, the Upper Bann MP told us he did believe in miracles.
I'm 
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