SF rejects DUP's Assembly demands

Democratic Unionist Party attempts to constrain power-sharing ministers will only result in key decisions in Norther Ireland becoming more partisan, it was claimed today.

Democratic Unionist Party attempts to constrain power-sharing ministers will only result in key decisions in Northern Ireland becoming more partisan, it was claimed today.

As the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair considered their next move after talks on power-sharing in Northern Ireland stalled, Sinn Féin defended the decision of former Stormont Health Minister, Bairbre de Brun, to close a south Belfast maternity hospital during the last period of devolution.