Hardline terrorists tried to coax guns from PIRA: report

HARDLINE republican terror groups tried to coax weapons from Provisional IRA members after the organisation announced an end to its armed campaign.

The IMC revealed in its latest report on paramilitary activity: “Following the PIRA statement of July 28, and before decommissioning was announced on September 26, dissident republicans approached members of PIRA who they believed might be disgruntled as a result of that statement, hoping to obtain weapons from them, but there has been no evidence of any success.”

The IMC said the Continuity IRA and Real IRA had sought to recruit since the Provisionals’ statement.