Adams urges followers to reassure unionists

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said Irish republicans must persuade the unionist community that its interests would be better served in a united Ireland.

Speaking in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, where he was campaigning for Sinn Fein’s election candidate Jim Dwyer, Mr Adams said republicans "should ensure that what they suffered under British rule is not perpetrated against unionists in a future 32-county state".