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The Foyle SDLP MLA Pol Callaghan complained at the start of proceedings today about the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson bracketing him with Cambodia's most notorious dictator. During a debate on tuition fees Mr Wilson said "I do not know whether his name is Pol Callaghan or Pol Pot, but if the latter rewrote the history of Cambodia, Mr Callaghan is trying to re-write the history of the SDLP". and today Mr Callaghan asked the Speaker to look at the matter - the SDLP may pride itself with being left of centre but to lump it in with the Khmer Rouge is going a bit far.

No MLAs, so far as I am aware, are called Muammar, so there's been no mention of events in Libya in the chamber today. But if there's regime change in Tripoli what will the repercussions be for Northern Ireland? Presumably much less of a chance of the compensation package for IRA victims being negotiated by Jeffrey Donaldson and others. And would a new regime open its official files on Libya's past dealings with the IRA and other paramilitaries?

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