'Don't pressurise loyalists on decommissioning' - Adams

Loyalists in Northern Ireland should not be ‘‘put through hoops’’ to follow the IRA’s lead on decommissioning, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said today.

Following talks with the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin, Mr Adams also called on the British Government to step up the process of demilitarisation and remove the ‘‘obscenity of a British military presence’’.