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If the elections tell us anything about the DUP it is that it cannot share power with SF and continue to abuse them, writes FIONNUALA O CONNOR

FOR HALF a century, the unionist community has destroyed its own leaders. Or rather Ian Paisley and the DUP destroyed them: O’Neill, Chichester-Clark, Faulkner and Trimble.