He has never accepted the 1998 agreement, which brought the assembly and a power-sharing executive into being.

But assembly leaders missed a November deadline to form a power-sharing executive.

If you want a power-sharing executive, you are likely to blow it with the council, I said.

The Assembly and its power-sharing executive have been suspended by the British Government since 2002.

The Assembly and power-sharing Executive were suspended several times but were restored again in 2007.

Most of the leaders of the 1974 strike felt that they had achieved their goal when Faulkner's power-sharing executive was forced to resign.

The party was then returned to government later in the year when a power-sharing Executive was established for Northern Ireland.

If it does not, Britain plans to suspend the power-sharing executive set up under the Good Friday 1998 peace agreement and reimpose direct rule.

That transformation is also evident in the establishment of a successful power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland.

They eventually did so, forming a power-sharing executive, although it was later suspended on the issue of the lack of IRA arms decommissioning.