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One News: Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, reports on the comments by Peter Hain, NI Secretary, in the House of Commons regarding efforts to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland
The Northern Secretary, Peter Hain, has ruled out a DUP suggestion that Sinn Féin should be barred from a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland.
During Question Time in the House of Commons, Mr Hain told the DUP leader, Ian Paisley, that sooner rather than later his party needed to talk to Sinn Féin, the second largest party in Northern Ireland.
On the need to restore devolved government, Mr Hain said this year was decisive and that all the party leaders would be facing some hard choices.
