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When Mary Lou McDonald emerged into the rain outside Connolly House in West Belfast to announce that Sinn Fein would press ahead with its Ard Comhairle this weekend, thereby potentially signalling the beginning of the end of the current justice talks, she was quizzed if she would be speaking on her own. The former MEP replied in French "une femme toute seule".

Then when my colleague Stephen Walker caught up with the Acting First Minister Arlene Foster she too talked about being on her own. But this time the complaint was directed at those Sinn Fein negotiators who hadn't turned up to meet the DUP for any discussions.

On ´óÏó´«Ã½ Newsline I made a quip about the DUP taking their turn as "themselves alone", but I had neither the time nor the linguistic ability to translate the reference into French.

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