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The Good Friday Agreement is his "guiding star".
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| 0:00.0 | Mejol Martin is very much the man of the moment he's finally moved his stuff into the Taoiseach's office in government buildings in Dublin. |
| 0:07.7 | But quite what that's likely to mean for his political opponents remains unclear. |
| 0:12.5 | He's repeatedly demonstrated he has no time for Mary Lou MacDonald. |
| 0:16.7 | And his newly established shared island unit is likely to raise eyebrows within unionism. |
| 0:22.0 | So who has more to fear from the new man in charge, Sinn Féin or Unionists? |
| 0:27.4 | Pat Leehee, who do you think is likely to be sweating more? |
| 0:31.7 | Well, whatever about having something to fear from Mihul Martin, |
| 0:35.4 | I think he will make a concerted effort to build bridges with the Stormant executive to have a more productive relationship with it, particularly on the unionist side. |
| 0:47.5 | And he would very much not be doing that with Sinn Féin in the South. |
| 0:51.5 | We will now have a much more clearly defined government versus opposition |
| 0:56.2 | dynamic in the Dahl and Mary Lou MacDonald will be his chief rival. There's no doubt about that. |
| 1:04.0 | Suzanne? |
| 1:05.8 | Sinn Féin has been there by a country mile. Meeho Martin has a natural antipathy to the party. |
| 1:13.5 | He'll also be very keen to clawback votes that Féna Foyle lost to Sinn Féin. |
| 1:19.4 | Plaw those back for the next election. |
| 1:21.8 | In Miho Martin, I think unions have a great friend in power down south. I don't think the shared island project, |
| 1:32.1 | the new office that he's going to set up really will threaten unionists at all. I think it'll be |
| 1:38.5 | more a talking shop with away days in Dublin and things like that. I think this is very, very good for unionists. |
| 1:46.7 | Gareth? |
| 1:47.3 | I don't think either of them have anything to fear, to be honest with you. |
| 1:51.2 | I mean, no doubt Sinn Féin will find themselves in the crosshairs of the new government, |
| 1:56.5 | but that's been the case for a long time. |
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