Robinson insists IRA must disarm

THE deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said yesterday there will be no return to power-sharing for Sinn Féin unless the IRA completely disarms.

Peter Robinson was speaking at the Small Firms Association (SFA) annual conference in Dublin yesterday, his first major engagement in the city.

He said his party wanted to see the return of the assembly and the cross-border bodies, but would not share power with Sinn Féin without “decommissioning of all the illegal weapons and the end of all paramilitary activity.”