Republicans 'cannot implement obligations in isolation'

Republicans cannot implement their peace process obligations “in isolation” while unionists fail to use their influence on loyalist paramilitaries to disarm, Sinn Féin chairman Mitchel McLaughlin claimed today.

In a hard hitting speech to Sinn Féin’s annual conference in Dublin, the Foyle MLA told delegates the party had delivered “right to the last comma on every commitment that we have made” while the British and Irish governments had failed to honour their pledges.