Sinn Féin rejects DUP bid to restore powersharing Assembly

Foreign Affairs minister Simon Coveney said Arlene Foster's intervention was: "A genuine effort to show leadership and reach out towards compromise."

Sinn Féin has rejected a DUP bid to restore the Assembly and resolve division over cultural issues.

Republican leader Michelle O'Neill said establishing a powersharing administration that may collapse after a matter of months on the same issues would only fail the people.