Sinn Féin to nominate Paisley as First Minister

Sinn Féin will bid to have the Reverend Ian Paisley nominated as Northern Ireland First Minister when the North’s Assembly is reconvened next week, Gerry Adams insisted today.

As Stormont’s 108 Assembly members prepared to gather next Monday for the first time since they were elected in November 2003, Mr Adams said his party was focused on trying to get the power-sharing institutions under the Good Friday Agreement set up.