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New Year resolutions our public figures should make

(Suzanne Breen, Sunday Life)

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson's pledge for 2015 should be to buy a new holiday home and spend some time there.

Robbo sold his luxurious Florida pad earlier this year for almost $500,000. The First Minister is a notorious workaholic who has to be dragged away from the office.

But despite his tactical and organisational genius, Peter's no vote winner for the DUP.

The public just don't take to him and revelations about that famous £5 land deal sealed it.

The DUP could lose a critical number of seats in the next assembly elections. Peter needs to start adjusting to life post-politics now.

CARAL NI CHUILIN

Our Culture Minister's New Year's resolution should be to get a bit of culture.

It was revealed in 2014 that, three years into the job, Caral Ni Chuilin hadn't been to a theatre show or Ulster Orchestra performance.

"I'm not really into plays and things like that," she said after her appointment which makes me wonder why Sinn Féin gave her that particular ministry.

Indeed every time Caral opens her mouth, most of us are stunned as to how she ever ended up holding high political office.

She needs to shape up if she doesn't want to go down as one of the most ridiculous ministers in history.

JIM ALLISTER

The TUV leader just needs to keep telling it as it is. Jim Allister must continue highlighting the political and financial absurdities at Stormont.

Jim's one man opposition in the Assembly has won him the respect of people like me who don't share his politics.

In June's EU election, he proved he was head and shoulders above the other candidates by being the only one to perform without notes in TV debates.

Northern Ireland needs more thorns in the side of the political establishment – don't go changing Jim!

GERRY ADAMS

The Sinn Féin president's New Year resolution should be to limit his dealings with Sinead O'Connor to listening to her music.

The singer has hailed the party's policies and applied to join. Adams would be insane not to veto her membership.

Sinead has a history of crazy, inconsistent actions. She ripped up a picture of the pope, then became a priest. She declared herself a lesbian, then married her fourth husband.

Sinn Féin is quite capable of its own u-turns – like the volte-face on welfare reform – without needing Sinead and hers.

And the party suffers ample embarrassment from Gerry Adams' tweets about teddy bears, baths, and rubber ducks without having to also endure Sinead's nonsensical ramblings.

WILLIE FRAZER

Willie Frazer and George Galloway need to call a truce. The mother of all libel battles will be played out in 2015 when the Bradford West MP's case against the IRA victims' campaigner is heard in Belfast High Court.

It follows a video wee Willie made outside the Ulster Hall which was far from flattering of gorgeous George.

With two colourful, uncompromising characters at war, the atmosphere in court will be explosive and a great day out is guaranteed for the media with Jamie Bryson acting as Willie's legal advisor.

But I'm personally very fond of Willie and George. They may be at polar ends of the political spectrum, but they're strong independent spirits. They shout sit down and sort this out before D-day in court.

BERNIE SMYTH

The Precious Life director should end her antics and start respecting other women's rights.

The day after she was sentenced for harassing Marie Stopes director, Dawn Purvis, Bernie was back protesting outside the clinic in breach of a court order.

Precious Life is fully entitled to campaign on its agenda but it's not entitled to intimidate vulnerable women in an already stressful situation.

Bernie should abandon the bullyboy tactics because, contrary to what she may think, most of us wont give a hoot if she ends up in jail.

January 5, 2015
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This article appeared in the January 4, 2015 edition of the Sunday Life.

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