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Yesterday appearing on "Stormont Live" I was asked to "talk around" a clip of Ian Paisley Junior raising his concern about an alleged attempt to burn down the Assembly boiler house on March 12th. That was the first day when MLAs arrived at the building after the March election. I quoted one Stormont source as suggesting the incident could have been someone having a "crafty smoke" where they shouldn't have been. Since then I've been told that it looks more sinister than that and the authorities are in pursuit of a suspect. So let's watch this space.

This wouldn't be the first time I've been ill informed about fires at Stormont. In January 1995, when I was the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Ireland Correspondent I got a phone call from my mum in England to tell me that Stormont was ablaze. She's heard an eyewitness who had phoned Radio 5 from their vantage point on the Newtownards Road. Yours truly rushed to the scene to play catch up and got there whilst the building was still well alight.

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