16 October 2002

Stormont; why did it collapse?

Dennis Murray, the BBC's senior Northern Ireland correspondent:

"Street disturbances and the hugely divisive marching season combined to turn up the temperature on the sectarian front - those tensions being much more evident after the worst of the troubles had gone. There is also a core assumption in the agreement that once in government, trust would build between old political enemies. Not only did that not happen, it got gradually worse."

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