SINN Féin enjoyed a comfortable win in South Down thanks to a 32 per cent vote share for Chris Hazzard, but both the incumbent MP and former seat holders the SDLP saw their overall support shrink in the face of Alliance growth.
IN some constituencies a 6,499 majority would be comfortable, but in Lagan Valley terms, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson barely squeaked home in the early hours of this morning.
SINN Féin’s Órfhlaith Begley comfortably secured her seat in West Tyrone in the early hours of today, but the count at Omagh Leisure Centre saw the Alliance Party break new ground west of the Bann.
IF one was compiling a thesaurus entry for the word `certainty', they would add expressions and phrases including foregone conclusion, reality, surety and inevitable result.
BREXIT, back stops, toxic election campaigns, industrial action in health and education and no local administration for almost three full years – it would be easy to be a little gloomy.
SCIENTISTS have discovered the functions of the area of the brain in which Alzheimer's disease begins - offering hope for the development of future treatments.