Politicians criticise Paisley 'rant'

DUP leader Ian Paisley was today accused of harming the prospects of political progress at Stormont after he said Sinn Féin would be in government over loyalists’ dead bodies.

In a hard-hitting speech to members of the Independent Orange Order in Portrush, Co Antrim, the DUP leader said: “Compromise, accommodation and the least surrender are the roads to final and irreversible disaster.