Sinn Féin accuses DUP of ‘deflection’ tactics over joint statement on posters

Last week a video emerged on social media showing Northern Ireland Prison Service recruitment posters being removed from a bus stop in Londonderry by members of a republican group

Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy said the DUP should be answering questions about when it will return to government at Stormont. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA

The DUP has been accused by a Sinn Féin MLA of engaging in “deflection issues” after criticism of the republican party’s refusal to sign a joint party leaders’ statement opposing the removal of prison service recruitment posters.

Conor Murphy said the unionist party kept throwing “dead cats on the table” to remove attention from their failure to restore the powersharing institutions at Stormont.