DUP is failing to engage: Adams

Mr Adams says his party will work to resolve current problems Gerry Adams has accused the DUP of failing to engage properly with his party in a bid to avoid a political crisis at Stormont. The Sinn Féin leader also said the issues causing the current impasse went beyond the transfer of policing and justice and Irish Language issues. He said they concerned a "fully functioning and cohesive government". DUP junior minister Jeffrey Donaldson said his party was not the one actively blocking executive meetings. "The only party preventing the executive from meeting is Sinn Fein. Every other party wants a meeting, including the DUP," he said. "The DUP has signed 30 executive proposals which is enough to sustain three executive meetings so I think the people of Northern Ireland will reach their own conclusions as to who is holding up... [read full story]