Update 5.10pm: Sinn Féin has outlined details of a draft agreement it insists it struck with the Democratic Unionists before negotiations to restore Stormont powersharing collapsed. Accusing the DUP of pulling the plug on the deal, Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said she needed to dispel "mistruths and inaccuracies" about what it contained. "For the record the draft record included an Irish Language Act, an Ulster Scots Act and a Respecting Language and Diversity Act” . @MaryLouMcDonald pic.twitter.com/15fNqEaygW — Sinn Féin (@sinnfeinireland) February 15, 2018Mrs McDonald said no consensus was reached on the region's ban on same-sex marriage. Mr Doherty said Sinn Féin wanted the institutions back up and running and that direct rule from Westminster was not an option.

Source: Evening echo February 15, 2018 17:15 UTC