Gerry Adams: ‘No North talks preconditions’

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has left the door open to a new northern body to monitor paramilitary activity.

But the TD insisted he would not agree to any pre-conditions for unionists entering talks to end the crisis threatening to collapse the Stormont Assembly.

“If the unionists want a fig leaf to be involved in talks then we will provide them with that fig leaf. We will not accept preconditions for talks. I don’t think anything should be agreed outside of the talks process, and you would not expect me to agree to anything I do not know the details of. If other parties want to put up that proposition, we will look at it, we are not ruling anything in or anything out,” Adams told RTÉ.