The Northern Ireland Assembly's governing body made a fresh effort today to reach a decision on whether to ban a Stormont memorial for an IRA woman shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar.
Members of the cross-party Assembly Commission have failed at a series of three meetings to reach agreement on the Sinn Féin plan to commemorate the life of Mairead Farrell since the issue was referred to them last week.
Sinn Féin MLA Jennifer McCann applied to use the Long Gallery in Parliament Buildings for an event recognising the life of Ms Farrell as part of International Women's Day.
The idea enraged unionists, who lodged protests with the speaker, William Hay, prompting him to refer the matter to the commission.
The commission is considering whether to introduce a blanket precondition for all events staged in the Long Gallery to receive cross-community support in the Assembly first.
Ms Farrell, who spent 10 years in jail for bombing a Belfast hotel, was gunned down by the SAS along with fellow IRA members Seán Savage and Daniel McCann in March 1988 as they planned a bomb attack on a military band in Gibraltar.
All three were unarmed when they were shot.