Sinn Fein minister appeals over power sharing

Sinn Fein Minister Bairbre de Brun today appealed to Ulster Unionist cabinet colleagues in the beleaguered Stormont Executive not to pull down the power-sharing institutions.

As Ulster Unionist ministers warned of grave consequences for the power-sharing government over allegations that republicans infiltrated the Northern Ireland office, Ms de Brun accused police of engaging in “theatre” to blacken the name of republicans.