Peace process faces ‘greatest threat’ since Good Friday deal

The Northern peace process is under its greatest threat since the landmark 1998 Good Friday Agreement negotiations, Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams has warned.

Mr Adams claimed an “anti-agreement axis” combining Unionists, the Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, and Downing Street, was conspiring to undermine the deal.

The Sinn Féin leader accused British prime minister David Cameron of disengaging from the peace process in a way that encouraged the Democratic Unionist Party to be obstructive at Stormont.