Lifelong foes Adams and Paisley to meet at Stormont

DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will come face to face at a meeting in Stormont today.

It is a tentative but possibly significant step towards the restoration of power-sharing in the North.

The men are expected to lead their respective delegations to the meeting of the Preparation for Government Committee, at which the two parties will discuss issues that would arise were devolution to occur. It is unclear, however, whether Mr Paisley and Mr Adams, bitter enemies for more than three decades, will address each other directly.