Tough rhetoric coming back to haunt parties - Durkan

The Democratic Unionists’ and Sinn Féin’s tough rhetoric of recent years is now coming back to haunt them, nationalist SDLP leader Mark Durkan said today.

As speculation mounted that a section of the DUP had challenged Ian Paisley’s authority at Stormont yesterday, Mr Durkan said Sinn Féin was also being taken to task by some of its members about its approach to policing.