NI 'soon a two-party state'

Northern Ireland is moving towards a two-party system with the Ulster Unionists and SDLP increasingly marginalised, a Stormont Assembly member has claimed.

In an address to sixth formers at a Catholic grammar school in Dungannon on Wednesday night, the text of which has only now been released, Democratic Unionist chairman Maurice Morrow said the next local government and Westminster elections would confirm his party and Sinn Féin as the main parties in their communities.