Welcome to the fourth podcast in our series of Red Lines' election specials.

Each week, between now and election day, we're profiling one of the main parties last week.

We focused on Sinn Féin next week. We'll be looking at Alliance.

But today, we're talking about the DUP.

And just before we examine the party's current fortunes, let's have a word about the election stories of the past few days.

Mark Devonport's with us. And Mark, an altogether different kind of political leak is dominating the headlines today.

We could get quite pun-tastic with this one, couldn't we?

I don't know quite what to term it as, although Gareth Gordon, who is an absent friend here today,

he's sitting down in the office wearing about the A to Z that he compiles at the end of

every year in terms of Northern Ireland politics. And I suggested that, well, he's got Zed sorted

out because maybe we could call it Zippergate. So, but anyway, it's the case of the Belfast

mayor who was caught short one late night in June and was spotted by the police officers

urinating in what he turned a discreet place close to his office in the cathedral quarter and then

was served with a community resolution notice which seems to be a sort of a low-key way of cautioning somebody or sanctioning

someone. And we might not have heard any more about it, but somebody has obviously decided

to put it in the public domain a few months later with just a couple of weeks to go.

And of course, he's not just the Belfast mayor, but also Schimphane's candidate in North Belfast, their prime target seat,

where he's facing the Dupes, Nigel Dodds and alliances, New Leibacastor.

So I think my colleague Stephen Walker's been out on the road,

and it's not only the media that think that the timing might be interesting.

To keep the puns going, I think it's important to credit the Belfast Telegraph

because this was their front page splash.

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