SF president urges DUP to commit to ‘real powersharing’

Mary Lou McDonald delivers her keynote address at a Belfast hotel. Picture: Jonathan McCambridge/PA

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has urged the DUP to commit to “real powersharing” with her party at Stormont.

The republican leader claimed that a DUP “failure to accept rights and equality” was a contributory factor in the “political storm” that has hit unionism recently.