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Pericolo caduta libera per la questione “devolution”

Free-fall warning on police issue

A senior Sinn Fein official has accused the DUP and NIO of engaging in brinkmanship and short-term expediency over the devolution of justice.

PSNI checkpointNational chairperson Declan Kearney said unionist and Government tactics have the potential to push the current impasse into “complete free-fall”.

His comments appear in newspaper An Phoblacht (Republican News).

He said that the DUP and Government were still not “learning the political lessons”.

He said the DUP and the government were making the “mistaken assumption” that Sinn Fein was so committed to the Stormont institutions that it no longer possessed any effective political leverage.

Mr Kearney said republicans were following “a national trajectory” and the local institutions were only of value if they deliver on the terms agreed on Good Friday and St Andrews.

Last month, Prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed budget plans for the transfer.

Sinn Fein has already approved the deal, but the DUP say the unionist community must have confidence in the plans and is seeking a number of concessions.

DUP leader Peter Robinson has also said that issues of parading needed to be resolved before the transfer could take place.

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