Adams attacks 'reckless' Government

SINN FÉIN last night attacked the Irish Government for its support of the Independent Monitoring Commission, accusing it of failing in its "stewardship of the peace process".

Party president Gerry Adams dismissed the IMC report as a sham and as a "proxy report by securocrats".

At a press conference in Dublin yesterday evening, Mr Adams dismissed the independence of the commission and also criticised what he said was its bias against republicans. He said it "reduced the ongoing unionist paramilitary campaign almost to a postscript".