Mary Lou McDonald and Arlene Foster both feel the heat but do not concede on the issues blocking Stormont
McDonald and Foster in Derry last week. Image: PA Wire/PA Images McDonald and Foster in Derry last week. Image: PA Wire/PA Images THE LEADERS OF DUP and Sinn Féin have both faced questions this morning about the way forward in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s funeral yesterday.
Northern Ireland has been without an Executive since January 2017 because of ongoing rows between Sinn Féin and the DUP. Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party disagrees with this approach but Foster said this morning it has the potential to move things forward. Foster was asked about this in the context of her attendance at the funeral of LGBT activist McKee and said her party’s position had not changed.
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