Senator
boldly goes once more into the Northern maze Analysis: George Mitchell is
back again in Stormont, trying to find a way around the impasse.
Gerry Moriarty reports
Would the time ever be right for them? The UUP leader, Mr David Trimble,
retorted that Mr Mallon was "loftily" sitting on the fence, and rather than
criticising unionists should be examining whether he could have done more
to find agreement. He said his party was holding to the line of "no guns, no government".
The Sinn Féin vice-president, Mr Pat Doherty, said his party was entering
the review with a "positive and constructive" attitude but again there was
no clue as to how the diametrically opposing positions of Sinn Féin and
the UUP could be reconciled.
At least Mr Mitchell was in absolutely no doubt about where the DUP leader
stood. Dr Paisley declared proudly that he was at Castle Buildings to "wreck"
the Belfast Agreement. |
