Mary Lou McDonald: No excuse left for DUP's Stormont Assembly boycott 

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald (right) and vice president Michelle O'Neill 

There is now absolutely no excuse left for the DUP's boycott of the Northern Ireland institutions, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has said.

Speaking on her way into a meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Government Buildings, Ms McDonald said she and her party want the Stormont Assembly back up and running, nine months on from the elections.