Flanagan: All have a duty to seal North deal

There is a “window of opportunity” to reach agreement securing the future of the power-sharing administration, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has said.

As talks got under way, he said he was not contemplating failure.

“I do believe there is a solemn duty and obligation on the part of everybody involved to forge agreement that is in the best interests, in fact in the only interests, of the people of Northern Ireland and the people of the island,” he said.