Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly says Girdwood plans are a step forward for a shared future

May 24, 2012, 08:40 AM

A Stormont working group brought together to build better community relations in Northern Ireland is now the subject of a major fallout with the Alliance party walking out. The crucial Cohesion Sharing and Integration committee was supposed to make a plan for a better shared future for us all. The 5 party committee, which was set up last year, has so far failed in its task. Alliance say it made the move after its ideas for education, housing and flags and emblems were rejected by the other parties. The final straw came after the plan for housing at the former military site at Girdwood in north Belfast was revealed.