Lunch break
Our MLAs are taking a break. They will be back in their chamber after 2pm. During the lunchtime period Sinn Fein politicians went "on the run", taking part in a running event to promote the Irish language.
Moments before the photo call Martin McGuinness was also a man on the move - this time he just kept walking when the victims campaigner Willie Fraser tried to serve a writ upon him in the Stormont Great Hall.
Earlier in the chamber Danny Kennedy hit back at the Deputy First Minister saying his party wouldn't give way to blackmail. He called on Shaun Woodward to pack his bags before the General Election. He also described David Ford as the Joseph Kavanagh of of local politics saying no issue was too expendable (that's a reference to an old Belfast businessman who offered to buy and sell anything).
The DUP's Ian Paisley Jr. made a highly charged speech referring to the widow of Stephen Carroll and took an intervention from Jeffrey Donaldson who asked which way the Newry courthouse bombers would have wanted MLAs to vote. So you can take it that's a "yes" from the DUP.
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