UUP putting 'IRA in government', say DUP

Unionists who participate in round table talks at Stormont are helping put the IRA back into devolved government, Democratic Unionist deputy leader Peter Robinson claimed tonight.

Responding to claims by Ulster Unionist negotiator Reg Empey that the DUP’s absence from yesterday’s round table talks masked the party’s real policy of engaging and sharing power with Sinn Fein, the East Belfast MP accused his rival of facilitating republicans.