Power-sharing with Sinn Féin 'a battle a day': DUP

DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson has said any new devolved government with Sinn Féin is likely to be "a battle a day".

DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson has said any new devolved government with Sinn Féin is likely to be "a battle a day".

He said that was why his party believed compulsory power-sharing had a limited shelf life.

Speaking at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Dublin today, Sinn Féin chairman Mitchel McLaughlin said the DUP had no alternative but to accept that power-sharing was the only way the North could be governed.

"The DUP do not come comfortably or naturally to power-sharing. For them, power-sharing is a huge step," he said.

"I hope they make the right decision. We want to see Ian Paisley sharing power; we want to see Iain Paisley on the North-South Ministerial Council."

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