Suzanne Breen: Jeffrey Donaldson was seen as representing strong, stable leadership – nobody saw it ending like this

Suzanne Breen

Today at 17:06

The DUP has made headlines for negative reasons so often in recent times, but this is one story that even those of us who cover the minutiae of political life here never saw coming.

It was after midnight that pieces of a macabre jigsaw started to fit together. There was a news story that a 61-year-old man from Co Down had been charged with historical sex offences.

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