'Get back to consensus building' governments told

The British and Irish governments were today urged to abandon their “concession of the weak” approach to the democratic Unionists or Sinn Féin in the the North's peace process.

In a hard hitting attack on both parties, nationalist SDLP leader, Mark Durkan, told his party’s annual conference in Belfast that the DUP and Sinn Féin could potentially form a voluntary coalition devolved government at Stormont under terms agreed last December in negotiations with the wo governments.