I’ve had worse evenings, to be fair.

Do you think I’ll get away with wearing this to work tomorrow?!

Leaving NI’s goods exports to the EU 60% higher per capita than in the rest of the UK.

I’m at an absolute loss to explain this…

#IStandWithCanada

Perhaps the apt day to share this slide from a presentation I gave in the Scottish Parliament on #Brexit this day seven years ago...

... the very day the DUP rejected the backstop. Oops...

#Edinburgh is a consistently world class city; every corner and nook is pleasant.

We are astonishingly lucky to have it so close.

Change versus 2020 from RTÉ shows two largest parties almost unchanged but SF and Greens falling notably.

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Final first preference in 2024 Dáil election - tallies almost spot on (within 0.1 for all three big parties), but exit polls not so much (well outside margin of error).

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(Just to back that up.)

Post-supermoon 2024…

I work in research and policy analysis (and occasionally recruitment), with a particular interest in health systems and infrastructure. We’ll no doubt return to that.

5/6

I follow football (Arsenal and Northern Ireland) closely, though perhaps less so than in the past as there’s too much money in it now. I like any team games.

Preferring amateur sport, I umpire about 70 hockey matches at all levels each season, including on the Ulster/Ireland panel.

4/6

I have a direct interest (my wife Paula is an MLA) and a general interest in politics, both local and global.

3/6

I live in the Belfast suburbs with my wife Paula and stepson Thomas (stepdaughter Rebecca is studying and lives in the Durham area) - and, very importantly, our cat Murphy.

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Just for the sake of introductions, one of my passions is travel (and another, sadly evident when you see me, is food) - this was Turkey in September.

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