Top SF members also in IRA, says report

LEADING members of Sinn Féin are operating at the highest echelons of the IRA, according to an international group monitoring peace in the North.

As the British government revealed plans to impose tough financial sanctions on Sinn Féin and the loyalist Progressive Unionists, a dossier on terrorist violence in Northern Ireland alleged there was the crossover between politics and paramilitarism.

The International Monitoring Commission (IMC) findings found alarming levels of attacks in the North, with murders approaching one a month.