An attempt by anti-agreement unionists to have a motion of no confidence in Mr Martin McGuinness passed in the North's Assembly has been thwarted by a pact between the SDLP and Sinn Fein, writes Clare Murphy.
SDLP members have joined with Sinn Fein to lodge a "petition of concern", forcing a cross-community vote on the motion in the chamber tomorrow. This means that the DUP motion, which followed the Sinn Fein Minister's admission that he was second-in-command of the Derry IRA on Bloody Sunday, has almost no chance of succeeding.