Sinn Féin wary of Stormont Assembly

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams will today signal his party’s reluctance to get caught in a Stormont Assembly that amounts to little more than a talking shop.

As Northern Ireland’s 108 Assembly members prepare to gather at Stormont on May 15 for the first time since they were elected in November 2003, Mr Adams is expected to make it clear that his party is only interested in a fully-functioning Assembly and power-sharing executive as envisaged under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.