British urged not to give in to DUP’s ‘grubby’ demands

THE British Government was urged yesterday by the SDLP not to give in to Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist’s “grubby” demands on demilitarisation.

As unionists continued to protest over plans to scrap the Northern Ireland based battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and the tearing down of military fortifications in the province, nationalist SDLP Assembly member John Dallat argued: “The British Government must not indulge this grubby agenda.

“The British Government admitted as much when they agreed two years ago to demolish them all. The only reason they are not already gone is because the IRA dragged its heels about ending all activity.