Assembly resumes amid party squabbles

THE peace process lurched forward again yesterday as the Stormont assembly resumed for a last-ditch effort to make power-sharing work.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern praised Northern politicians for managing to gather in the same room, but the brief opening session was beset by bitterness and point-scoring.

DUP leader Ian Paisley said it was not impossible for his party to work with Sinn Féin, but it would take the destruction of the IRA to make it happen.