Trimble claims victory over IRA 'juggernaut'

The IRA “juggernaut” has been halted in Northern Ireland and Sinn Fein “hollowed out,” Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has claimed.

As Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams prepared to discuss efforts to revive devolution at Stormont with party colleagues in Dublin, it emerged Mr Trimble defiantly told an Ulster Unionist branch in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, last night that republicans would have to wait very long to see their dream of an end to British rule fulfilled.