DUP to push for Sinn Féin expulsion from North powersharing government

Evidence of Provisional IRA activity is of sufficient strength to force the exclusion of Sinn Fein from the North’s powersharing government, the Democratic Unionists have insisted.

DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds said his party would push for Sinn Féin to be thrown out of the coalition administration if the republican party did not deal with the revelations about the involvement of some PIRA members in a murder.

Mr Dodds indicated his party would be prepared to bring down the institutions if the issue was not dealt with “very speedily”.