DUP can resolve deadlock, says SF

JUST one word from the DUP leadership would release the Northern devolved government process from the present deadlock, Martin McGuinness confirmed yesterday.

Sinn Féin’s chief negotiator, speaking at a Sean South commemoration ceremony in Limerick said the DUP must ‘agree’ and not just ‘welcome’ Tony Blair’s assessment of Nationalist and Unionist positions on policing and power-sharing.

The British PM said last Thursday that SF was prepared to share power by March and accept the transfer of policing powers by May 2008, as envisaged in the St Andrew’s Agreement.