Adams celebrates removal of watchtower

Gerry Adams today celebrated the removal of a military watchtower despised by republicans in west Belfast and suggested a possible relocation on the Rev Ian Paisley’s church rooftop.

But as soldiers dismantled the Divis Tower observation post as part of a sweeping security scale down in Northern Ireland, the Sinn Féin president refused to offer any new clues on the IRA’s disarmament process.