Clock ticking for N.Ireland rivals after fractious vote

Belfast (AFP) – Northern Ireland’s main political parties on Saturday were facing a three-week deadline to mend fences after snap elections aimed at sorting out the bad blood between them left them deadlocked.
In a historic shake-up, unionist parties lost their absolute majority in Northern Ireland’s legislature for the first time since the province’s creation in 1921.
And if the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein, the Irish republican party, canno