Bailey bomber in line for senior cabinet post

FORMER Old Bailey bomber and prison escapee Gerry Kelly could be in line for a senior cabinet post in the Northern Ireland power sharing government, it emerged last night.

The Sinn Féin Assembly member was among four MLAs named by party leader Gerry Adams as his ministerial choices once power-sharing returns to Stormont on May 8.

But with Conor Murphy tipped to be the next education minister and Michelle Gildernew expected to take over at agriculture, the question was whether Mr Kelly or South Down