SF 'could back plans for block vote'

Sinn Féin could back plans for the Northern Ireland Assembly to vote in future for the North’s entire power-sharing government, a senior negotiator signalled today.

In a significant move in the run-up to the Irish and British government proposals to revive power sharing, Sinn Féin chairman Mitchel McLaughlin said his party could live with the alternative to the current system of joint electing First and Deputy First Ministers.