Sinn Féin in call on rights issues before powersharing negotiations can resume

Sinn Féin's Stormont leader has said there is no basis for powersharing negotiations to resume unless the UK and Irish governments commit to delivering on "rights" based issues.

Following a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire at Stormont, Michelle O'Neill said: "When the last phase of talks ended, we made it very clear that the issue of rights was not going to go away.