Brown 'should come up with bigger peace dividend'

Concerns are mounting in Belfast that Gordon Brown still has to grasp the need for a substantial peace dividend to bolster any new power sharing government in the North, Sinn Féin claimed today.

As Democratic Unionist leader the Rev Ian Paisley prepared to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons ahead of tomorrow’s talks between the North's parties and the British chancellor, Sinn Féin’s Mitchel McLaughlin observed that the Irish Government was the only one so far to put new money on the table for an incoming Stormont Executive.