Simon Coveney plays down significance of lack of DUP meeting

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has played down a lack of face-to-face meeting between the Taoiseach and the DUP during today's crunch talks at Stormont.

Arlene Foster's party did not meet with Leo Varadkar when he travelled to the North amid hopes of a breakthrough in the political stalemate between the DUP and Sinn Féin.