DUP meets arms-scrapping witnesses

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party today had talks with the clergymen whose witnessing of IRA arms decommissioning they have questioned.

A former Methodist Church president, the Rev Harold Good, and Catholic priest Father Alec Reid said on Monday that witnessing the process on a minute-by-minute basis gave them clear and incontrovertible evidence “that beyond any shadow of doubt the arms of the IRA have now been decommissioned”.