The DUP today looked to one of Ireland's best known living republicans to settle their in-fighting over the proposed multi-sports stadium in the Maze/Long Kesh.
As you doubtless know, Nigel Dodds on Friday threw a spanner in Edwin Pooot's best laid plans over the stadium by saying that the plans are tarnished by the presence of "a shrine to IRA terrorism" nearby.
During question time Jeffrey Donaldson asked Martin McGuinness to give assurances "that there will be no shrine associated with any stadium in Northern Ireland commemorating any cause or seeking to bring the past into the future."
This was interesting as it seems like in his haste to have any hunger-strike commemoration he is also ruling out 'a shrine' to the late great Georgie Best.
Anyway, unionists can now rest at ease as the republican says that there is no plan to build a shrine, but just an international centre for conflict resolution.
Phew, I hear Nigel Dodds and Edwin Poots collectively sigh in relief - that's that problem solved then.
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