Adams: Policing decision shows SF serious about entering government

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has told his party's Ard Fheis in Dublin this evening that its decision on policing showed it was serious about getting into government.

Sinn Féin, he said, was ready for government on both sides of the border.

Mr Adams said the decision on policing had been difficult one but it had freed up the political crisis in the North and put pressure on the DUP.

"That debate was without doubt the most difficult, the most problematic, the most historic initiative Sin Fein has taken during the course of the peace process," he said.

"It proved once again the willingness of Republicans to embrace change and to make radical decisions which are in the long term in the best interests of the Irish people."