Adams: Institutions must be in place by November deadline

Working power-sharing institutions will have to be in place by Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern’s November 24 deadline, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams insisted today.

As his party settled in at St Andrews where crucial Northern devolution talks are taking place, the West Belfast MP said: “I spoke by phone to (Northern Ireland Secretary) Peter Hain over the last while.