We need our two Stormont leaders to behave as stateswomen
I was glad when our first and deputy first ministers took the decision not to fly to America for Saint Patrick’s celebrations.
I was further pleased when they stood together last week to announce that schools in Northern Ireland will not be closing yet.
By the following day however everything was up in the air when Michelle O’Neill tweeted, ‘Oh no, I’ve changed my mind again’.
I realise it is fashionable to have women at the top but with coronavirus we need above all people who can do the job. Ian Paisley and Martín McGuinness succeeded in bringing about great change in this Province because they worked together.
On Thursday I looked at these two ‘leaders’ standing apart, stony faced and distant.
This is a time for cool heads and steady hearts.
Amid a health crisis in Northern Ireland, we do not need two angry women, we need stateswomen.
Robert Lacey, Greenisland