It by no means felt proper 4 and a half years in the past after we had been informed by Mary Lou McDonald from Dublin, with no mandate up right here, that there was no one appropriate in Northern Ireland to be chief constable.
The hens have come home to roost.
Ironically she was addressing civic unionism at Queen’s University later that day and had visited the Sean Graham households (no disrespect to them) earlier that day. I used to be within the viewers going through her.
Sinn Fein has performed policing and justice like a cat with a mouse ever since then, veering away from the St. Andrew’s Agreement when not signing a joint leaders’ letter to do with the removing of Prison Service recruitment posters.