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Northern Ireland: DUP threatens to call time on power-sharing
Crisis following ex-IRA man’s murder deepens
ULSTER Unionists claimed yesterday that allegations of a reactivated IRA should justify excluding Sinn Fein from Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) threatened to tear up the key clause of the Good Friday Agreement over claims that former IRA members murdered dissident republican Kevin McGuigan two weeks ago.
Its announcement followed the Ulster Unionist Party’s threat on Wednesday to quit the Stormont executive over the issue.
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