Ulster government 'on brink of collapse'
Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government was teetering on the brink of collapse tonight, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair summoned Sinn Fein leaders to Downing Street for crisis talks this week.
As Sinn Fein’s head of administration Denis Donaldson prepared to appear at a special sitting of Belfast Magistrates’ Court over the alleged infiltration of the Northern Ireland Office by republicans, relations between the key players in the province’s peace process soured dramatically.
