Analysis: Foster takes aim at Taoiseach in first DUP conference
Leader’s stinging rebuke of Dublin provides only fireworks in otherwise bland address
First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster delivers her keynote speech to delegates at the DUP annual conference at the La Mon Hotel in Dundonald, Belfast. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Saturday was Arlene Foster’s first DUP annual conference as First Minister and party leader. So she had to grab the faithful at the start. Which she did.
At big conferences leaders must have other politicians to attack. She and Martin McGuinness are running the Northern Executive together, so having a lash at Sinn Féin would have appeared odd.