Former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness yesterday condemned death threats to DUP leader Arlene Foster as “shameful and totally unacceptable”, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

Senior Sinn Féin figures have refused to say if Martin McGuinness will run as a candidate in the now imminent Stormont election, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner.

Update 9.45am: Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has said that said that neither Dublin nor London are to blame for the Stormont crisis.

The dramatic resignation of Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister yesterday has thrown the North’s power-sharing administration into chaos.

The North's First Minister Arlene Foster is set to meet with the DUP in private later, to try and resolve the so called 'Cash for Ash' controversy.