IRA gets tough on disarmament

THE IRA last night said it would refuse to make any further moves on disarmament until commitments made by Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and the Irish Governments to restore the institutions were honoured in full.

In a move that will likely lead to a problematic scenario in the wake of the Assembly elections on November 26, the Provisional IRA described their third decommissioning act last week as having comprised of the “largest amount of arms to date”.

Mr Trimble also came under criticism in the statement, which accused him of derailing the carefully-planned sequencing process by failing to live up to his side of the deal. He had given no “credible explanation” as to why he did so “The political process these initiatives were designed to facilitate has been halted without a credible explanation from those who stopped it.