IRA arms handover would be 'stunt': Paisley

Any decommissioning of arms carried out by the IRA over the next few days will be no more than a meaningless stunt, Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley predicted today.

The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, has received indications that republican paramilitaries may be preparing their second act of decommissioning before Easter.