DUP to reveal GFA re-negotiation plans

The Democratic Unionist Party is due to launch is proposals for re-negotiating the Good Friday Agreement later today.

The hardline anti-agreement party has claimed that a majority of unionists do not support the 1998 peace deal, which brought an end to 30 years of bloodshed in the North.

The DUP wants to renegotiate the agreement to scrap the current system whereby cross-community consent is needed in all Assembly votes.

It also wants to limit the power of cross-border bodies and ensure that the Irish Government had no influence over the Northern Executive.

The DUP said it wouldn't even discuss its plans with Sinn Féin while the IRA continued to exist, let alone share power with the party.