Sinn Féin adamant Arlene Foster cannot be first minister

Sinn Féin is not budging on its insistence that Arlene Foster cannot return as Stormont first minister while a public inquiry into a botched green energy scheme is ongoing, Gerry Kelly has made clear.

The republican party's stance on the DUP leader is one of a number of issues of dispute standing in the way of restoring devolution at Stormont.