North talks break down as Brokenshire begins to set budget
‘Honourable compromise’ to restore Executive remains possible, Coveney says
Sinn Fein’s Northern Ireland leader Michelle O’Neill with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams. File image: Mark Marlow/PA Wire
An “honourable compromise” to restore the Northern Executive remains possible, the Minister for Foreign Affairs has insisted despite the breakdown of negotiations between the DUP and Sinn Féin.
Sinn Féin’s Northern leader Michelle O’Neill said on Monday that Northern Secretary James Brokenshire’s decision to begin bringing in a budget for Northern Ireland from Westminster was acknowledging that “an agreement hasn’t been possible”.