Peace campaigners in Belfast have staged a second rally in as many days to demonstrate their opposition to the recent unrest.

The Union flag could soon be flying over Belfast City Hall again, a senior loyalist politician claimed today.

Two clergymen who witnessed the decommissioning of IRA weapons will be honoured for their role in the key chapter of the peace process, it was announced today.

The Methodist Reverend Harold Good has said that acceptance of law and order by Sinn Féin would remove the last obstacle to restored devolution in the North.

BELFAST-BASED priest, Fr Alex Reid, who witnessed IRA arms being decommissioned last year, was last night named Tipperary Person of the Year.

Ireland must send a clear message to people in countries affected by severe conflict and poverty that it is there to support them in the long term, it was urged today.

The British government was today accused of being involved in a cover-up over the IRA’s final act of disarmament.

The IRA has denied that some of its members have held onto handguns and other weapons.

The British and Irish governments will today meet Sinn Féin at talks in Hillsborough Castle focussing on a range of issues in the peace process.

The Rev Ian Paisley was challenged today to stop hiding behind rhetoric and show real political leadership by sharing power with Sinn Féin.

A Catholic priest who witnessed the completion of IRA disarmament was tonight embroiled in a fresh political storm after he refused to accept that the Provisionals were involved in the £26m (€37m) Northern Bank robbery.

Controversial comments by Father Alec Reid comparing unionists in the North to the Nazis were said in the heat of the moment, his fellow witness to IRA disarmament claimed today.

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.

EVEN by DUP standards, Dr Ian Paisley’s refusal to accept the collective word of the head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning displays an incoherent political philosophy riddled with conspiracy theories.

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.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party today had talks with the clergymen whose witnessing of IRA arms decommissioning they have questioned.

More and more unionists in the North will slowly accept that the IRA has decommissioned all its arms, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams claimed today.

The Democratic Unionist Party is due to meet the head of the decommissioning body today to discuss the completion of IRA disarmament.

THE Irish and British Governments yesterday powerfully backed the international decommissioning body’s determination that the IRA has fully destroyed its vast arsenal of weapons, describing it as a landmark shift of deep historical significance.

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”.

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.

The IRA's decommissioned arms included ammunition, rifles, machine guns, mortars, missiles, handguns, explosives and explosive substances, General John de Chastelain has said.

Methodist minister Harold Good has has said he is "certain, totally certain" that the IRA has disarmed.

General John de Chastelain has said the IRA has disarmed "the totality of its arsenal".

The IRA has destroyed all the weapons used to run its campaign in the North for more than 30 years, the world will be told today.

THE Provisional IRA has destroyed its vast arsenal of weapons and explosives, the head of the international decommissioning body will confirm today.

The Church of Ireland and the Methodist Church have signed an historic agreement to join the two churches together.

The Queen has celebrated her Golden Jubilee with 1,000 people at an inter-denominational church service in Belfast.

A 40-gun salute is to mark Northern Ireland's tribute to the Queen Mother tomorrow at Hillsborough Castle.

Loyalists were tonight preparing to stage new school protests in north Belfast.