Mary Lou McDonald: “The time for placing blame on the tribe has passed. We are not the same reservation we were in 2012. We have a plan. Now…”

Politics is changing rapidly in Britain and Ireland. Whoever becomes the next British prime minister must recognise these new political realities.

It cannot be missed," she said. "It must be grasped."

The question is not whether we can afford reunification. It is whether we can afford partition.

Without that we are going to continue with the nightmare that we are seeing on our streets, and just to remind ourselves people have been badly injured and worse.