Adams: Deal cannot be held hostage to parades resolution

Devolving policing and justice powers to the North cannot be held hostage to a resolution on controversial loyalist parades, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams warned today.

But Democratic Unionists accused him of living in “cloud cuckoo land” if he thought he could determine local outcomes for marches during the current round of intensive talks at Hillsborough Castle, Co Down, to save the power-sharing administration from collapse.