Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has told UK Prime Minister Theresa May that she is in breach of the Good Friday Agreement over her bid to get an agreement with the DUP to get into government.
"Both parties are committed to strengthening the Union, combating terrorism, delivering Brexit and delivering prosperity across the whole country".
A formal deal has yet to be secured but Tory sources have said there is a "broad agreement" on the principles of the speech, and State Opening will now take place on Wednesday - two days later than originally scheduled.
May needs the support of the DUP to govern, after a disastrous election result in which she lost her parliamentary majority.
The prospect of a deal between the two parties has caused disquiet, with the DUP's anti-abortion and gay rights stance in the crosshairs.
The Irish CP leader said that the DUP are in a contradictory position, aiming to maintain the division of Ireland while also seeking to locate the economic border between the United Kingdom and the European Union "down the middle of the Irish Sea" alongside the security border.
He claimed such a deal could endanger the peace process.
THE DUP are living in a "fool's paradise" if they believe there can be a return to the power-sharing institutions without committing to a rights-based approach to government, Sinn Féin's Declan Kearney told the annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration in Bodenstown on Sunday. In 1920, guerrilla warfare between what became known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and unionists led to the partitioning of Northern Ireland and the future Republic of Ireland.
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Talks restarted on Monday in Belfast, under Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire.
"I will spare no effort to fulfil the [Irish] government's duty as co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement", Mr Coveney said.
In Luxembourg last week for a meeting of the 28 European Union finance ministers, Hammond underlined that he wanted both the European Union and Britain to take a "pragmatic" approach to the talks.
The Government Chief Whip has played a leading role in negotiations with the DUP and other Northern Irish parties aimed at getting enough backing for Theresa May to form a working majority in the House of Commons.
Brexit is another complicating factor in the mix.
Ceasefire negotiations began in the 1980s, eventually culminating in the Good Friday Agreement, which was negotiated by the governments of the UK, US and Ireland, as well as representatives of Northern Ireland groups.
London, Belfast, Dublin and Brussels all want to keep the border open, but no agreement has been reached.
"The most right-wing and reactionary party in northern Ireland will be backed by the most right-wing and reactionary major party in Britain, directly the product of British imperialism's history of intervention and domination in Ireland", he commented, pointing out that the UDA and UVF paramilitaries had backed the DUP in this month's General Election.
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