DUP ‘ready to share power with SF’

IAN PAISLEY’S Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is ready to share power with Sinn Féin, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said.

Speaking after the annual Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown yesterday, Mr Ahern said he believed the DUP would be prepared to enter into a power-sharing agreement with Sinn Féin in a restored Northern Assembly.

Mr Ahern said he believed if agreement was reached on decommissioning, an end to paramilitarism and co-operation in policing and justice, the DUP would agree to share power. “If we get agreement on these issues, then I think it is entirely reasonable to expect the DUP to power share with Sinn Féin,” he said.