DUP and SF continue blame game over North impasse
The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin have continued to blame each other for the failure to reach a breakthrough in talks aimed at restoring devolved government in the North.
The talks at Leeds Castle in Britain ended without agreement after the DUP refused to budge on its demand for a re-negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement, despite the IRA's apparent willingness to decommission and disband.
However, speaking during a fringe meeting at the British Labour Party conference in Brighton today, DUP Assemblyman Jim Wells said the reason for the lack of progress was the IRA's failure to follow up its words with concrete action.
Speaking at the same event in Brighton, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness rejected this assertion and accused the DUP of intransigence in the talks.
