Viewed from afar, Northern Ireland’s politics can seem bleakly unchanging – the same orange and green disputes, the same sectarian hatred, the same centuries-old constitutional chasm.
A DUP MP has said Sinn Fein should face a “full audit” of its data dealings, after its leader admitted there was a “gap in compliance” concerning its handling of voter information.
Naomi Rachel Long Johnston, was born December 1971 in Downpatrick Street into a staunchly Presbyterian household to Emily, a Sunday School teacher and her father James, a devoted member of the Orange Order and the Royal Black, who worked as a sheet metal worker in the Shipyard, where so many east Belfast men toiled and sweated. A young Naomi was bookish and interested in drama, but after losing her father aged 10 became the man around the house by taking on the DIY jobs, rewiring plugs, laying carpet tiles, painting and papering. Feisty and fearless, she clearly gets some of this from her mother, who refused to give money to loyalists who shortly after her father’s demise wanted to paint the kerbstones outside their home red, white and blue. The next day there was a giant Union Jack painted on the road outside the house with ‘No surrender’ and ‘Never forget 1690’ emblazoned.
Although the book is described as charting the three years from the collapse of the Executive in January 2017 to its restoration in January 2020, it is actually about much more than that.
Naomi Rachel Long Johnston, was born December 1971 in Downpatrick Street into a staunchly Presbyterian household to Emily, a Sunday School teacher and her father James, a devoted member of the Orange Order and the Royal Black, who worked as a sheet metal worker in the Shipyard, where so many east Belfast men toiled and sweated.
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