UDA ceasefire is 'completely non-existent'

There is clear evidence that the ceasefire of Northern Ireland’s largest loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association, is in some areas ‘‘completely non-existent’’, a nationalist minister in the Stormont Executive claimed today.

SDLP Employment and Learning Minister Sean Farren said, following an attempted bomb attack on a seaside town packed with tourists, that the Government must acknowledge the UDA ceasefire was not operating in some parts of the province.