North-South meeting cancelled due to SF/DUP row

A planned meeting of the North South Ministerial Council today has been cancelled due to the ongoing stalemate in the North's power-sharing Executive.

The meeting was scheduled to take place in Armagh.

Its cancellation follows the scrapping of a planned meeting of the Northern Executive at Stormont yesterday.

The Executive hasn't sat since mid-June due to a row between Sinn Féin and the DUP over the devolution of policing and justice powers from London to Stormont.