In the last 27 months, the British Government has spent £53 million on maintaining the institutions set up by the Good Friday Agreement. The institutions were suspended in October 2002, after the PSNI made serious unfounded allegations of an IRA spy-ring at Stormont. No evidence was ever provided to back up their claims. Free article

26-County Justice Minister Michael McDowell probably didn't expect any adverse reaction to one of his most frenzied anti-republican outbursts to date, when he posted it on his department's website last Thursday. Free article