Mary Lou McDonald says it's 'game on' for Northern Ireland protocol deal after Sunak meeting

Sinn Fein Party leader Mary Lou McDonald (left) and vice president Michelle O'Neill speak to the media outside the Culloden Hotel in Belfast, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is holding talks with Stormont leaders over the Northern Ireland Protocol. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Sinn Féín has called indications of progress on the Northern Ireland Protocol heartening however, the deal "is not done yet", Britain's prime minister told the SDLP.

Rishi Sunak was meeting with a number of party leaders at Stormont on Friday morning amid rumours that a deal was about to be struck.