DUP embarks on crucial meeting over power-sharing

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists today embarked on a crucial party meeting about their possible involvement in a new power-sharing executive.

However as the 120 member party executive gathered at the headquarters of Castlereagh Borough Council in Belfast, senior party sources expressed doubts about whether the party would be able to be in a position to nominate devolved ministers by next Monday’s power-sharing deadline.