IRA peace process stance 'cuts no ice' - Trimble

The IRA’s refusal to accept the blame for the crisis in the Northern Ireland peace process cuts no ice with other parties, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble claimed tonight.

In a response to the terror group’s accusation in a newspaper interview that unionism had failed to live up to its commitments and obligations, the Northern Ireland First Minister said the Provisionals’ comments marked a “new and worrying phase in republican thinking”.