Sinn Fein warned Theresa May today that her deal with the DUP puts her in violation of the Good Friday agreement, Gerry Adams has said.
DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has said there is no deadline for a deal between his party and the Tories, who are trying to establish a Westminster government without a majority.
John Major, the former Conservative prime minister, said on Tuesday of the Irish peace process: "People shouldn't regard it as a given".
"The Prime Minister will have to do a lot more, however, to convince us that the DUP tail isn't wagging the Tory dog".
In a joint press conference at Downing Street, he said as co-guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement, the British and Irish governments should not be too close to unionism or nationalism.
Northern Ireland-based DUP won 10 seats.
The new landscape is a belated outworking of the two governments" strategy of cultivating the DUP and Sinn Fein, rather than parties that were, at the time, considered "centre ground'.
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He raised his concerns with Mrs May over the deal she is trying to finalise to prop up her minority government. Mr Coveney said a deal was "do-able" but there were differences between the parties that needed to be bridged.
He spoke out after holding face-to-face talks with Theresa May in Downing Street aimed at kick-starting the stalled Northern Ireland peace process. He held a series of bilateral meetings with the parties yesterday and said that there was a desire to restore the power-sharing institutions.
Both parties are committed to a strengthening British unity, delivering Brexit, combating terrorism, and delivering prosperity, the source said, adding however that "at the moment there isn't a deal".
If the parties can not agree a deal, then devolution will be suspended and the Northern Irish assembly's powers returned to the United Kingdom government.
The pound rose after the Bank of England came its closest in a decade to raising interest rates to counter higher prices after Britain's vote to leave the European Union - a move that could further squeeze Britons with big mortgages.
May, however, expressed confidence about getting the speech passed, even if a deal is not reached with the DUP before the state opening of Parliament.
Leo Varadkar made his comments after meeting with the leader of the DUP which is in talks to keep May in power.
"Whatever happens there could have - we don't know if it will because we haven't seen any of what's going on - could have an impact on what's happening".
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