The Assembly is looking for someone with a bit of security expertise who can provide it with 4 X-ray baggage scanners, 4 metal detecting archways and 8 handheld scanners. It's all to do with the hole in the ground, previously noted here, which is set to become an external search area. Since General De Chastelain's IICD team don't look as if they will be busy anytime soon decommissioning UDA weapons, maybe they could provide Stormont with a quote.
But not if your name is Caitriona Ruane and you are walking past the Chinese supermarket on Belfast's Ormeau Road. Earlier today a colleague spotted some graffiti on posters and lampposts there bearing the slogan "Caitriona, bristeoir na stailce", which they tell me means "strike breaker". So much for those unionists who, speaking in the Chamber this week, argued that Sinn Fein use the Irish language as a political tool. There's at least one Irish speaker out there who appears to be distinctly off message, at least when it comes to the classroom assistants' strike.
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