N.Irish Unionists demand exclusion of Sinn Fein from government

Democratic Unionist Party deputy leader Nigel Dodds speaks to a colleague(out of shot) at the party's policy conference in the village of Templepatrick twenty miles north of Belfast, March 28, 2015. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's largest pro-British party threatened to bring down the province's power-sharing government unless nationalist Sinn Fein is thrown out, after the IRA, Sinn Fein's one-time armed wing, was linked to a murder.

"We are determined that, one way or another, we will have a government in Northern Ireland consisting of people totally committed to peaceful and democratic means," Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) deputy leader Nigel Dodds told a news conference on Thursday.