McGuinness lays down power-sharing challenge to DUP

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness tonight challenged the Democratic Unionists to use their stunning electoral triumph to form a new Northern Ireland power-sharing government in two weeks’ time.

With the British government warning all sides in Belfast they will shut down the Stormont Parliament unless a deal is done by the March 26 deadline, Mr McGuinness pledged complete republican co-operation if the DUP goes back into an Executive.