Tuesday, April 20, 2004

NI parties to face sanctions

I've not seen much coverage of this story, which is that Sinn Fein and the Progressive Unionist Party are to face sanctions over continuing loyalist and republican violence. It appears as the Assembly is suspended the sanction of...a pay cut ... is not available, and so more direct measures (the government funds partly both parties) will be need. Isn't Northern Irish politics strange?