Heather in a cultural flowering

IN AN example of how popular culture matters, Minister Heather Humphreys, pictured, quoted Erin Quinn of Derry Girls in an appeal over the stalemate in the North. ‘No matter how scary it is, we have to move on and we have to grow up… We have to be brave, and if our dreams get broken along the way, we have to make new ones from the pieces,’ she said this week. It’s not the first time Ms Humphreys has referenced the show either. Earlier this year, she said of its depiction of religious differences: ‘Derry Girls are right about us Protestants. I do keep my toaster in the press.’ She has yet to reveal whether she hates Abba too...