The initial reaction to the Independent Monitoring Commission's report concerning the role of the IRA in the peace process has been positive with MP David Lidington welcoming the results: "We welcome what the IMC says about the security normalisation programme.

The priest who witnessed IRA decommissioning provoked fury after he compared the unionist community to Nazis for their treatment of Catholics in the North.

One of the independent church witnesses to IRA decommissioning tonight compared the unionist community to Nazis for their treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today put pressure on Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid to declare the IRA ceasefire over next time the organisation carries out a murder.