SDLP: Failed devolution 'bad for nationalists'

Democratic Unionist leader the Rev Ian Paisley has proved last December’s failed deal to restore devolution in Northern Ireland was bad for nationalists, it was claimed tonight.

During a visit to Dublin, nationalist SDLP leader Mark Durkan claimed the DUP leader’s comments about the circumstances in which he would share power with Sinn Féin proved his party’s scepticism about last year’s deal was right.