Joint authority 'a Sinn Féin dream'

Nationalist calls for the British and Irish governments to implement joint authority in Northern Ireland are pie in the sky, a senior Democratic Unionist claimed tonight.

DUP chairman Maurice Morrow dismissed comments in New York by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams that London and Dublin should dissolve the Assembly and expand cross-border co-operation if unionists do not sign up to a deal soon to restore devolution at Stormont.