Republicans are working hard to enable the IRA to respond to calls for the terror group to abandon the armed struggle, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said tonight.

Doing business with the Rev Ian Paisley‘s Democratic Unionists at some stage in the future is inevitable, Sinn Féin party president Gerry Adams claimed today.

Ulster Unionist threats to wreck Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government are encouraging loyalist paramilitaries to launch a new sectarian murder campaign, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams claimed today.

David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists are encouraging a new loyalist paramilitary killing spree by threatening Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams claimed today.

Supporters of the Good Friday Agreement in Unionism must assert themselves in defending and promoting the accord, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams insisted this evening.

Tension in Ulster was heightened yesterday by the announcement of loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Freedom Fighters that they were withdrawing from the Good Friday Agreement but maintaining their ceasefire.