The failed political efforts must be acknowledged and Stormont has failed to deliver on this project.

If you look back on the history of Northern Ireland, the US has been a key interlocutory over the last few decades.

Are we going to see pomp and pageantry of anniversary celebration together with a US Presidential cavalcade but still no functioning democracy?

'The new deadline to form an Executive in Stormont is now the 8th of December'

'It's an insult to all the people in the North of Ireland who voted in a democratic election only a few months ago'

'There is an onus on all of us to turn up in that Assembly Chamber'

'With the weakness of the pound at the minute, every product that we sell into the British market is that much dearer than it was a week or two weeks ago'

'It's time for Boris Johnson to be responsible'