WHEN about half the electorate abstains from voting on a bright spring day and Gerry Carroll tops the poll in West Belfast, you can only assume that Stormont's failure to deliver has finally come home to roost. It may not quite be a northern uprising, but the election results show that while Sinn Féin and the DUP will continue to dominate the new executive, they will now govern with a bit less confidence than previously. The long-term threat to their power comes not so much from the other established political parties but, as this column suggested last week, from the Greens an[...]