McGuinness attacks Trimble's 'nuclear' threat

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has warned that the North could face yet another crisis if unionists persist in demanding sanctions against republicans.

David Trimble and his Ulster Unionist Party has asked the British government to review the IRA’s ceasefire in light of accusations that it was involved in a break-in at Castlereagh barracks in Belfast last month.

Mr Trimble said he would use the “nuclear option” and collapse the Northern Assembly if the British government fails to act, but Mr McGuinness attacked these latest threats.

“I think there’s every danger of us reaching a huge crisis within this process when I hear, for example, David Trimble this morning talking about the nuclear option,” he said.

“We know what happened at Hiroshima, we know what happened at Nagasaki. Why are we talking about making the North of Ireland effectively a political wasteland?”