Adams: We must build on meeting

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said the historic meeting between Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Martin McGuinness should be about more than novelty and symbolism.

Mr Adams said the importance of the handshake will be in how Anglo-Irish relations develop.

“What happened today is a very, very good thing indeed and again, I come back to it — will it be significant beyond the novelty or beyond the symbolism? That’s up to us,” he said.