Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today called on the British and Irish Governments to move quickly to restore power-sharing in the wake of IRA decommissioning.

HARRY McClafferty grimaced as the newsreader announced the IRA was abandoning its armed campaign for good.

The British and Irish Governments were today urged to insist that Sinn Féin backs policing in Northern Ireland regardless what the next IRA statement says.

A man was arrested today in connection with the murder of Robert McCartney, police in Belfast said.

The Provisional IRA today denied it authorised an attempted abduction in Belfast which has caused a fresh crisis in the peace process.

Hopes of a quick fix solution to Northern Ireland’s latest row faded tonight as Sinn Féin and the Ulster Unionists clashed over who was to blame for the North’s political deadlock.

Police in Northern Ireland secretly copied files stolen by the IRA from the British government’s main offices in Northern Ireland as part of a major anti-terrorist intelligence gathering operation, it has been claimed.

The IRA has rejected a proposal that an auditor should be appointed to monitor paramilitary ceasefires in Northern Ireland.

The vice-chairman of the North’s Police Board tonight faced demands for his resignation over claims that ex-paramilitary prisoners should be allowed to join the North’s new force.

No terrorist organisation has yet claimed responsibility for today’s car bomb in West London but the Real IRA has been the only group which has attacked Britain in recent years.