Durkan accuses Sinn Fein

Sinn Fein has been accused of giving legitimacy to anti-Good Friday Agreement unionists’ hopes that the 1998 accord could be renegotiated.

Stormont Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan last night claimed Sinn Fein’s argument that unionists should begin talks on a united Ireland fed the anti-Agreement camp’s belief that the accord was only temporary - on the eve of an SDLP conference on the new political climate.