Sinn Fein challenges unionists on equality

David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists were today urged to acknowledge the need to ensure equal treatment for Northern Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities under the Good Friday Agreement.

Former Sinn Fein health minister Bairbre de Brun expressed concern about the comments of a former Cabinet colleague in the Stormont Executive, Dermot Nesbitt, that there was no need for an Equality Commission in the North.