The health of Martin McGuinness, the former deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, is seriously deteriorating, reports have suggested. Sinn Féin has said McGuinness’s health is a private matter and it will not discuss it further. Meanwhile, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire, said there was a “limited window” to reach a power-sharing deal. Under the rules of power sharing, the government fell because it no longer represented both sections of the community in Northern Ireland. The DUP has resisted any such act, arguing that it never agreed to one in the negotiations that established power sharing 10 years ago.

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2017 11:26 UTC