Durkan and Adams to meet at Stormont

Northern Ireland’s nationalist political leaders Mark Durkan and Gerry Adams were today planning face-to-face talks at Stormont in the wake of the Ulster Unionists’ threat to pull down power-sharing institutions next year.

The SDLP leader and Sinn Fein president were holding talks as part of a series of meetings organised by Deputy First Minister Durkan with pro-Good Friday Agreement parties to find a way forward in the current political crisis facing Northern Ireland.