Adams warns DUP over Assembly revival plans

THE Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists must not be allowed to dictate the pace of Irish and British government efforts to revive the Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said yesterday.

Mr Adams said after a meeting with the Parades Commission in Belfast city centre about the marching season that the DUP would have to engage with his party if there was to be progress in the political process.

The West Belfast MP also dismissed reports that the DUP wants the IRA to demonstrate over a six-month period their peaceful intentions before they would consider sharing power with Sinn Féin.