Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams accused the DUP of pushing Northern Ireland's power-sharing government toward crisis. The West Belfast MP claimed the failure of the main unionist party to engage with republicans on key issues was the root cause of the current political stalemate. The Stormont Executive has not met for a month with the cancellation of a scheduled meeting fuelling claims that the two leading parties cannot agree on issues such as the devolution of policing and justice and an Irish language act. Mr Adams laid the blame squarely at the door of elements within First Minister Peter Robinson's party, which he claimed were only interested in forwarding their own narrow agendas. "There are difficulties which need resolution if a crisis is to be avoided," he said. "In early June the DUP committed to a process of...
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