A quiet lunch for the new Director
The Speaker, Willie Hay, was having a quiet lunch in the Stormont Members Dining Room with his choice for the new Director and Chief Clerk, Trevor Reaney, when 17 journalists, including yours truly, arrived for a going away meal for our colleague, the Press Association's Political Editor Dan McGinn.
The Speaker promised that a press release would be going out soon about the appointment of Mr Reaney, formerly the Chief Executive at the Policing Board. But when you've already had lunch in the presence of 17 hacks representing every sector of the Belfast press pack a formal announcement seems somehow unnecessary.
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