evidence: The UK government has committed to legislating at Westminster on the Irish language and other cultural provisions if they are not dealt with at Stormont by October. [...] This has been around since an Irish Language Act was first agreed at St Andrew’s 15 years ago, and given the last few weeks have demonstrated yet again the tensions around it. While a way has been found around this latest impasse, it seems unlikely that the road ahead will not throw up further roadblocks, not least given the continuing opposition to Irish language legislation within some sections of unionism and – given its record on other matters – the dependence for this latest solution on the word of the UK government.