North assembly elections will be held in October, claim loyalists

ELECTIONS to Northern Ireland’s collapsed power-sharing government will be held in October, it was predicted yesterday.

Even though attempts to drag the peace process out of crisis have been deadlocked for months, members of the loyalist Ulster Political Research Group insisted fresh polls to the Stormont Assembly are due within months.

UPRG representative Frankie Gallagher said senior members of the organisation were briefed by “very reliable sources within political circles”.