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Brian Feeney: Devolution is a charade – Let me tell you who really runs the north

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Dr Julie Harrison is the permanent secretary at the NIO , the person pulling the levers and pressing the buttons behind the facade.

The NIO board advises an absentee proconsul sent from Westminster for the time being.

NIO employs 170 in its London office and Belfast office, which was opened a couple of years ago .

What this outcome shows is that fundamentally, devolved administration of this sub-polity is a charade. The British don’t just send money, they still run the place from behind the facade that’s Stormont ..

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