Deal depends on whether two main parties can compromise on language and cultural issues
Why did Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government collapse in January 2017? The executive fell apart when Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister in response to a scandal surrounding the Democratic Unionist party first minister Arlene Foster’s role in the “cash for ash” scandal centring on the mismanagement of a renewable heat incentive scheme that ultimately cost the government £480m.
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