O’Neill voices fears over Stormont’s future as bid to restore powersharing fails

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill has said she fears that the Stormont Assembly may never return following another failed bid to revive the powersharing institutions.

Ms O’Neill accused the DUP of refusing to accept a nationalist as first minister and said if the executive could not be restored then a British-Irish partnership that provides “joint stewardship and an intensified role for the Irish government” in must be considered.