Republicans must come clean about Colombia - Trimble

The Northern Ireland peace process will stay deadlocked unless the republican leadership comes clean over the three suspected IRA men arrested in Colombia, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble warned today.

With the pro-Agreement parties preparing to begin major new talks to try to agree a settlement on disarmament, demilitarisation and policing by the British Government’s September 23 deadline, the former Stormont First Minister said the detention of the three had completely undermined the republican movement’s credibility.