Martin warns of ‘vacuum’ created in North

The promise of the peace process has been squandered by the Northern Executive, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has warned.

Giving the keynote address at his party’s annual Arbour Hill commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, Mr Martin said a dangerous political vacuum had been created by Sinn Féin and the DUP.

The former foreign affairs minister was also critical of London and Dublin for not doing enough to help the situation and ensure that cross-border and cross-community institutions worked in they way they were intended to.