'Election result underlines new settlement demand'

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Prime Minster Tony Blair will have to face up to the reality that a majority of unionists want a new settlement in Northern Ireland, they were told today.

As the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists powered their way towards becoming the largest party in the next Assembly, one of its senior MPs Gregory Campbell insisted London and Dublin would have to admit Good Friday Agreement was no longer workable.