Trimble seeks talks with SF over IRA ceasefire

The North’s First Minister, David Trimble, is to seek an urgent meeting with Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to discuss the status of the IRA’s ceasefire.

Speaking after a meeting with police chiefs in Belfast, Mr Trimble said that if suspicions of IRA involvement in a break-in at Castlereagh barracks are true, then the IRA’s ceasefire has clearly broken down.

He called on Sinn Fein to demonstrate that it is still in control of the IRA.

“It must be obvious to Mr Adams and Mr McGuinness that continuing paramilitary activity from the republican organisation threatens their political project and that it is hugely in their interests for that paramilitary activity to diminish and cease,” he said.