Blair 'unconvinced by IRA's acts of completion'

No political party with links to active paramilitary organisations can have any future role in the Northern Ireland executive, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said today.

As Northern Ireland’s politicians prepared for a make-or-break review of the Good Friday Agreement, Mr Blair said he was “not satisfied” that the so-called acts of completion needed to show republicans had definitively turned their back on violence had taken place.