application of your law are joining me now is neil oh doroty, professor of political science at the university of galway in ireland. professor, it's good to have you with this we just heard from the leader of the d. u p. unionist party there it seemed to it sounded to me that there may be some room, at least for e law in northern ireland. does that sound to you like they are coming around to accepting today's agreement? well, jeffy, tom donaldson is talking in terms of a couple of weeks of thinking about the agreement and balling it over and studying the small print. but to day a colleague of his e and pays the junior an m p in the house of commons declared that he thought it wasn't going to work. and that storm would not be re established and a government would not be re established in northern ireland. for some time to come, so they're mixed messages coming from the d u p. m. what peter, or what jeffrey donaldson said about the european court of justice. it is interesting because initially opposition to the protocol was driven by the friction surrounding trade between great britain and northern irelan