Bertie Ahern backs review of Good Friday agreement if DUP returns to Stormont

On eve of 25th anniversary former taoiseach says there is a logic and a rationale' for looking at some outdated elements

Bertie Ahern, one of the architects of the Good Friday agreement, has said he supports a review of the historic peace accord but said it can only happen if the Democratic Unionist party returns to Stormont.

Speaking just days before the anniversary of the 1998 deal that ended 30 years of bombing and bloodshed, the former taoiseach said there was a logic and a rationale for taking a look at the institutions and some of the mechanisms around it at this 25-year juncture".