IT is welcome that the Taoiseach has recognised how the SDLP “led the way for the nationalist community” on the issue of policing.

THIS is an abridged version of Sinn Féin’s statement on policing.

The Green Party in the North has called for everybody over the age of 16 to be given the right to vote.

Mr Adams said his party was not prepared to ‘‘settle for anything less than the new beginning to policing promised in the Good Friday Agreement’’.