DUP's Jim Wells: 'I hope trust will begin to break out again' with NI Assembly deal

Jim Wells told RTÉ radio’s Today with Séan O’Rourke show that the people of Northern Ireland have no appetite for another election.

The longest ever serving member of the DUP, Jim Wells has said that while the deal proposed by the British and Irish governments to restore the Northern Executive and Assembly does not contain all that his party wants, he sees it as a way forward.

Mr Wells told RTÉ Radio’s Today with Séan O’Rourke show that the people of Northern Ireland have no appetite for another election.