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It fell off the back of an Assembly 2

Mark Devenport | 09:54 UK time, Wednesday, 20 June 2007

On Monday night, as Alex Salmond, Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness were tucking into a formal dinner, I got a tip off that two more lap top computers had gone missing from Stormont. This followed the theft of two laptops reported on this blog on the 4th June. The brand new lap tops in question belonged to the Alliance member Sean Neeson and went missing from his party's offices.

It looked like the Stormont sneak thief had made a return visit. The police were called and dusted down the Alliance office for fingerprints. People were searched as they left Parliament Buildings in case they were trying to smuggle the lap tops away. But nothing turned up.

Until the next day that is when Sean Neeson's colleague Kieran McCarthy enquired what the fuss had been about. Not, he presumed, the two lap tops he had locked away in a cupboard for safe keeping?

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  • 1.
  • At 10:28 AM on 20 Jun 2007,
  • RJ wrote:

Why's he got 2 laptops?

  • 2.
  • At 01:07 PM on 20 Jun 2007,
  • JB wrote:

He's Alliance remember - one laptop for Unionist matters, the other for Nationalist! All nicely balanced.

  • 3.
  • At 03:51 PM on 20 Jun 2007,
  • Bedd Gelert wrote:

Wonderful story !!

  • 4.
  • At 04:13 PM on 20 Jun 2007,
  • Frank Moore wrote:

Mark

How can you be so cruel? By highlighting this latest incident involving missing laptops you have given more ammunition to Iris Robinson (aka Cruella de Ville) to beat up on poor old Kieran. I fear the Strangfeud is set to continue.

Frank
Carryduff

  • 5.
  • At 12:03 AM on 21 Jun 2007,
  • RJ wrote:

Ha-ha! I wonder would his political schizophrenia get him 2 ministerial drivers? Or a grant to put up Ulster-Scots and Irish signs outside his house? Or to double the Alliance Party's seats on the executive from zero to big fat zero!

  • 6.
  • At 09:37 AM on 21 Jun 2007,
  • Owen McManus wrote:

Never mind why he has two laptops. I am more interested as to why they brought in the American CSI officers, when our very own "Scene of Crime Officers" AKA "SOCO" would have been a lot cheaper and just as effective.

  • 7.
  • At 06:34 PM on 21 Jun 2007,
  • RJ wrote:

They're called CSI here now too. The name was changed when everyone started watching the program.

Keep an eye out in friday teles and you'll see the odd job ad. CSI in big letters. Not one bit ashamed of it.

  • 8.
  • At 06:35 PM on 21 Jun 2007,
  • RJ wrote:

Maybe that Kieran fella has £26m in a cupboard somewhere...

  • 9.
  • At 01:35 PM on 23 Jun 2007,
  • Sammy wrote:

leave iris alone, at least she's not as thick as them two, you think that mccarthy had enough sense to tell neeson were the laptops were

  • 10.
  • At 12:18 PM on 26 Jun 2007,
  • RJ wrote:

aye too right. iris hasnt done nothing wrong. leave her alone youse ones.

  • 11.
  • At 06:36 PM on 26 Jun 2007,
  • Martin wrote:

Iris is Iris. Strange...

  • 12.
  • At 08:30 PM on 28 Jun 2007,
  • Pandora wrote:

Iris may be 'strange', although I suspect you would be strange too if you had 'Dr Strangelove' as a Party Leader - strange indeed due to his 'love in' with 'The Deputy'. Perhaps Iris is a bit miffed by not getting a freebie to visit Washington for a shopping spree!

Speaking of the DUP; I understand that Minister Edwin Poots has gone on holiday. Already it seems his one day a week part-time job is proving too much for him!

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