Unionist hardliner calls for Sinn Fein expulsion

Nothing short of the expulsion of Sinn Fein ministers from government office in Northern Ireland will rekindle Unionist confidence in the peace process, a leading Ulster Unionist MP said today.

Hard-liner Jeffrey Donaldson told thousands of Orangemen gathered for the annual Twelfth of July celebration in Lisburn, Co Antrim that the day of reckoning for the peace process had arrived and the sooner everyone faced up to that fact the better.