IRA 'unlikely to declare war over'

It is unlikely the IRA will declare that its war is over, a senior Sinn Fein figure claimed today.

As British Prime Minster Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s officials examined a final draft of an IRA statement, Sinn Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin said its language was unlikely to be in the form that unionists want.