IRA still has terror capability - police chief

The IRA is still unlikely to carry out a major terrorist operation which would breach the organisation’s ceasefire but retained its capability, a senior policeman in Northern Ireland claimed today.

After the IRA today said it would give due consideration to Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams’ call for them to embrace politics and abandon the armed struggle, Assistant Chief Constable Sam Kinkaid told Northern Ireland Policing Board he was aware that recent events could overtake his assessment of the Provisionals’ capabilities.