Sinn Féin will do everything to maintain peace process, says McLaughlin

SINN Féin leaders will do everything in its power to keep the peace process going and remove the guns from Irish politics, a senior member of the party vowed yesterday.

In an address to the Parnell Summer School in Co Wicklow, Mitchel McLaughlin said the British Government could help bring an end to the “armed force dimension of Irish republicanism” by fully implementing the Good Friday Agreement.

But he also warned the cancellation in May of Assembly elections in Northern Ireland could result in the possible meltdown of the political conditions that led to the Agreement.