Northern Crisis: Peter Robinson resumes Stormont duties

Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson has resumed his duties as Stormont first minister and his resigned ministers have returned to office following the publication of a review of paramilitary activity in the North.

The DUP last month disengaged with the power-sharing administration in Belfast amid a crisis sparked by a murder linked to the IRA.

The independent assessment of paramilitary structures, which was commissioned as Stormont lurched towards collapse, found that all the main republican and loyalist groups, including the Provisional IRA, still exist; that members have committed murders since the ceasefires of the 1990s; but that their leaders are now committed to peace.