Archives for July 20, 2007

I interviewed Peter Robinson for Inside Politics tomorrow. The finance minister and I discussed a range of issues including the Maze, water charges and Workplace 2010. He wasn't too happy when I pointed to evidence that PFI had not worked elsewhere. Anyway, he also answered a few questions on the proposed Maze stadium. Find out more tomorrow....

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I was walking out of the BBC today when I met Barry White, the Belfast Telegraph columnist. The veteran journalist has chronicled both the Troubles and the peace process for many years. Such was his pessimism about the peace process ever working out that he was nicknamed, Barry Black. Indeed, he was affectionately described as "the man who turned the light out at the end of the tunnel."

But with Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness now getting along famously in a power-sharing Executive, and decommiissioning and policing now addressed, I said hello - and teased him with the words: "Well, the peace process is finally working out...."

"We'll see," he said. "Give it another six months."

Some things never change....

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