Mark Carruthers

🚨The latest #BBCRedLines - looking back to five years ago as the DUP almost tore itself apart over who should lead it: Arlene Foster, then Edwin Poots - very briefly - then Jeffrey Donaldson. It’s a great listen with @BBCGarethG @SuzyJourno & @timcairns bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Last night’s @BBCTheView is available now on @bbciplayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

"I think it's irresponsible and ludicrous frankly." Brian Feeney wrote in the Irish news recently saying Stormont's time is up, does he have a point? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @ClaireHanna

"They know their grass roots are watching this and thinking 'you're not delivering'" @chrisadonnelly on Sinn Fein's Stormont strategy

"You can't have a good terrorist who fought against imperialism and injustice and then you now have a bad terrorist." Why did Carla Lockhart get up in the House of Commons and say what she said? @markcarruthers asks commentator David Graham. #BBCTheView

Come on Arlene! 📢The latest Red Lines has dropped📢 @MarkCarruthers7 looks back on @ArleneFosterUK's resignation as DUP Leader five years ago and the chaos it began in the party with @BBCGarethG @SuzyJourno and @timcairns bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

"Fair play to Chris for constructing it." Speaking to @MarkCarruthers7 on #bbcsp @MaryLouMcDonald rejects criticism of her leadership and Sinn Féin's performance at Stormont by columnist @chrisadonnelly

"None of this is cosmetic." @MaryLouMcDonald tells @MarkCarruthers7 Sinn Féin will bring forward proposals for the reform of Stormont shortly...

"You can't dodge this question." @MaryLouMcDonald tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the possibility of pro-independence First Ministers in Scotland and Wales increases the need for the Irish unity debate...

If you missed #bbcsp with @MarkCarruthers7 there is another chance to see it at 22:55 on @BBCTwoNI It's also available on @BBCiPlayer and on @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

This week due to the London Marathon coverage #bbcsp with @MarkCarruthers7 is on at 2:15pm on @BBCOneNI @BBCJayneMcC reports from the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis @MaryLouMcDonald talks about Stormont reform and leadership @JonTonge analysis Also available on @BBCiPlayer and @BBCSounds

"The only thing that's achieved is disruption and distress." Speaking to @MarkCarruthers7 on #bbcsp @MaryLouMcDonald condemns the car bomb attack on a police station in Dunmurry.

Sunday Politics is live on @BBCRadioUlster at 10am On BBC One NI at 2.15pm #bbcsp

@AlexKane221b @HillsCastle Thanks Alex… 👍

@HillsCastle @MarkCarruthers7 It’s a fabulous book

📚 Colin Davidson and Mark Carruthers in conversation with Marie-Louise Kerr 🖼️ Join us at Hillsborough Castle as Colin Davidson and Mark Carruthers reflect on their intimate and compelling book, Twelve Paintings. 📆 Friday 08 May 🎟️ Book now 👉 bit.ly/TwelvePaintings

"There is no real room up here, political headway, in any way shape or form to seriously raise revenue." What is the likelihood of revenue raising measures being brought in by local parties? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @dmcbfs

"The idea that the UK Treasury is full of money is for the birds". @MarkCarruthers7 asks @JonTonge if the parties making the decisions in Stormont are under pressure from their voters because of the lack of delivery? #BBCTheView

"The crisis we have in terms of corridor care." @SAS_DrClodagh tells @MarkCarruthers7 that thousands of excess deaths" have happened in NI because of poor hospital care..."

"Transformation is essential but transformation is not doing away with staff." If health and education are largely responsible for the budget overspend here, something has to be done? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @DianeDoddsMLA

"Mismanagement and under investment." @SAS_DrClodagh tells @MarkCarruthers7 that health standards in NI are the worst in the British Isles because of a lack of money...

"We have a draft budget that's been produced which almost no Executive party bar Sinn Féin can sign up to." @DianeDoddsMLA tells @MarkCarruthers7 #BBCTheView