MARTIN McGuinness emphasised this week that Sinn Féin will not allow the equality mechanisms enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement to be diluted or undermined in any way. This follows proposals by the DUP's Peter Robinson to fundamentally alter the way in which the North's Assembly operates. The proposals are retrograde and will only promote exclusion and delay in political decision making. In the midst of huge economic crisis such antics will not help one jot in addressing the real hardship being experienced by ordinary people. Free article