Sinn Féin and DUP still deadlocked

Mon, Oct 13, 2008, 01:00

Gerry Moriarty

THE NORTH'S First Minister Peter Robinson has described the Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams as a "sad spectacle". Sinn Féin and the DUP remain deadlocked over the issues that are blocking meetings of the Executive.

Mr Robinson, speaking in Crilly Orange Order hall in Co Tyrone at the weekend, said Mr Adams should be treated with "pity rather than scorn" after the Sinn Féin leader recently said there were elements in the DUP who were bigots and who "didn't want a Catholic about the place".

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