DUP: Test period for IRA statement could be extended

The testing period for the IRA to prove its statement is for real will be extended if there is a lack of transparency around the disarmament process, republicans were told today.

Democratic Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson said his party believed unionists would need a longer time to be convinced the IRA had consigned its armed campaign to history if there were no photographic record of weapons decommissioning.