The Photo Impasse
No sooner did I return from reporting on one impasse (the deadlock after Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon treaty) than I found myself talking about another (the summer without an Executive meeting).
Dublin yesterday was repleat with picture opportunities - a demonstrator dressed as a frog, another carrying a placard telling President Sarkozy to "mind you own business, onion head" and Marie Antoinette (a.k.a Caitriona Connolly, a no campaigner from Tipperary).
Our new executive, on the other hand, isn't so strong on pictures. After Peter Robinson took over as First Minister, Stormont officials tried to arrange an opportunity for the TV cameras and the snappers to get some images of the new line up. But various ministers were missing. Now that the summer gap is stretching beyond a month, with Sinn Fein and the DUP unable to resolve their differences over devolving justice and other issues, those images of a Robinson led executive are proving elusive.
An impasse involving photographs which never see the light of day. Why does that sound familiar?
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