It would appear that Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness may not have done the IRA’s final act of decommissioning justice in heralding it as merely “historic”.

IN his opening remarks, Gen de Chastelain said it was vital that the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning told it “only as we saw it. We do not believe it is for us to editorialise.”

FOR three weeks in September, General John de Chastelain and his two colleagues on the international decommissioning body were driven around in a van with blacked-out windows to secret places where vast quantities of IRA arms awaited them.

SPECULATION is mounting that the IRA will finally make a statement on its future, perhaps as soon as Thursday of this week.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will today reveal in Belfast the deal they have been working on to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.

IF Gerry Adams were to swear allegiance to the queen, join the Police Service of Northern Ireland and lead an Orange parade down the Garvaghy Road, then maybe — just maybe — David Trimble might be satisfied.

The North's peace process was back in crisis tonight after David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists hit out at General John de Chastelain’s disarmament report.