IRA would have agreed to photos under deal

THE IRA would have consented to photographs under a deal to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, according to documents released by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern yesterday.

According to a draft statement from the international disarmament body, had a deal been struck there would have been two acts of disarmament this month destroying the IRA’s entire stockpile of weapons.

Two clergymen, acting as independent observers, would have witnessed IRA disarmament which would have been completed by the end of this month. They would have been able to make public statements about what they had seen.