THE wheels could be about to come off at Stormont, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy warned last week, if reform of the institutions is not delivered.

For anyone who watches our Executive closely, you could be forgiven for thinking ‘here we go again‘.

We seem to be on the fast-track to another collapse, which would be the third in a decade.

The early warning signs are always the same.

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Polls or election results show a restlessness within one community, the media focus on who is under pressure, and then the questions follow from the parties about who is committed to power-sharing and who is not.

What we saw last week between the DUP and Sinn Féin were the early signs of this starting to creep back into this current iteration of devolution.

The history of collapses makes for depressing reading.

Only twice since 1998 has a devolved administration served a full term in office, and like the last time, we are questioning........

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