'Blair and Ahern must call DUP's bluff'

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern were urged today to “call the Democratic Unionists’ bluff” by triggering power sharing moves in Northern Ireland.

During a visit to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, nationalist SDLP leader Mark Durkan said the British and Irish governments needed to stand up to attempts by the Reverend Ian Paisley’s party radically to rewrite the Good Friday Agreement.