Missing devolution deadline ‘would betray voters’

The North’s politicians will betray their voters if they fail to form a power sharing government by November 24, a senior SDLP official warned today.

Negotiator Sean Farren told the Glencree summer school in Co Wicklow that after a bad start the Stormont committee, tasked with preparing for government, had set about its work in a business-like manner and with less bitterness than before.