'Stop posturing and listen to voters', politicians told

Northern Ireland’s politicians must stop point-scoring off each other and instead respond to their voters’ desire to see things sorted out once and for all, a nationalist leader said tonight.

The call came as Irish and British government officials met Sinn Fein, the loyalist Progressive Unionist Party and nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party at the start of the most intense week of negotiations since devolution was suspended last October.