Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said today that the Government has totally failed the people of Ireland.

UUP Assemblyman the Rev Dr Robert Coulter is to run for March’s Assembly elections in the North.

Democratic Unionist Party leader the Rev Ian Paisley today told republicans there could be no way back into government for them in Northern Ireland until the IRA got rid of its weapons.

The executive council of the Ulster Unionist Party is due to meet in Belfast later today to decide its policy in relation to the Irish-British declaration on implementing the Good Friday Agreement.

THOUSANDS of republicans and nationalists joined in a series of protests across the country yesterday to mark the cancelled date for the North’s Assembly elections.