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The journalist Suzanne Breen is a political correspondent of the Belfast Telegraph and a regular contributor to BBC current affairs programmes about the Northern Ireland state.

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This is her latest summary of events in that corner of the world.

Using any rational standard, the content is stunning.

Can NI stumble forward, or is it a failed state heading for a series of serious accidents?

Readers. judge for yourselves.

Good morning,

A new BBC documentary looks at the financial and sexual scandal involving the DUP’s Iris Robinson which sparked the downfall of Northern Ireland’s political power couple. I recall an interview in the months before in which Iris spoke of her ‘blessed’ relationship with husband Peter.

Belfast’s next Deputy Lord Mayor is the only local politician who has played a gig with a Kneecap member. SDLP councillor Paul Doherty talks about the Turf Lodge childhood that shaped him, and how food banks in 2025 symbolise political failure.

A DUP MLA was branded a “pocket Powell from Portadown” as the political temperature rose and insults were flying during a Stormont debate on immigration.

The constitutional significance of Aontú’s bill to allow Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland to vote in presidential elections to the Republic shouldn’t be underestimated.

And finally, a man who claims Lord Mountbatten raped him as a child says he learned the identity of his attacker from watching news reports of his murder by the IRA.

The most marginalised and vulnerable children were raped by powerful men in Kincora, allegedly including King Charles’ uncle. The files have been locked away in a very British scandal. It’s long past the time we were told the truth about this house of horrors.

Until next time,
Suzanne