Orange Order seeks lifting of march ban
Adams said: “Our resolve is to see these institutions put in place on the basis they were founded upon as quickly as possible. That could be done this time tomorrow morning or dinner time today. They are all rights issues subject to previous agreements.
“We made clear at the beginning of these talks that James Brokenshire is not an acceptable chair.”
Earlier, Mr Brokenshire appeared to rule out an independent mediator to chair the Stormont talks.
He said the current process – which involves the UK and Irish governments chairing elements of the negotiations and the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service moderating other discussions – is the “right approach”.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood warned that the future of Northern Ireland could not be left “in the hands of a TORYDUP government”.
“If James Brokenshire thinks for one second he can be an independent chair of these talks he is absolutely wrong,” he said.
With Northern Ireland having been without a powersharing executive since March and without a first and deputy first minister since January, a new three-week process to salvage devolution has begun in Belfast. A major question mark hangs over the talks as a result of developments at Westminster.
A number of deadlines to reach an agreement have already fallen by the wayside since March’s snap Assembly poll, which was triggered by the implosion of the last DUP/ Sinn Fein-led administration over a dispute about a botched green energy scheme.
The Assembly election campaign exposed many divisions between the two main parties on issues such as legislative protections for Irish language speakers and how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
0 Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams with party members at Stormont A Northern Ireland Orange Order lodge has called on the DUP to use its newfound influence at Westminster to have a ban lifted on a parade.
The Orange Order last marched along the predominantly republican Garvaghy Road to Drumcree church in Portadown 20 years ago.
The call is included in a wishlist of loyalist aspirations which emerged this week in anticipation of a deal being struck between the Conservative Party and the DUP after Prime Minister Theresa May last her House of Commons 0 The Orange Order hopes DUP deal will end march ban majority in last week’s general election. The Portadown lodge said: “We trust that the parading issue especially in Portadown will be high on the agenda for the new government.”
A Downing Street spokesman would not comment.