Paisley slams all-party talks

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley has denounced today's all-party talks aimed at finding a way to restore the North's devolved political institutions.

Mr Paisley, whose party opposes the Good Friday Agreement, said: "It seems to me a very strange thing that we have at the table today, in this building at talks presided over by the Irish Republic's minister as well as the British minister.

"We have IRA/Sinn Fein, which at the moment has the finger pointed at it across the whole world - a finger of accusation, the finger that says they were in a spy ring.

"So it is very clear today that you have those at the table who are engaged, closely engaged, with international terrorism. Now you cannot have democracy coming from such a womb."