Hardline republicans tried to coax weapons from IRA

Hardline republican terror groups tried to coax weapons from Provisional IRA members after the organisation announced an end to its armed campaign, it was claimed today.

The Independent Monitoring Commission revealed in its latest report on paramilitary activity: “Following the PIRA statement of July 28, and before decommissioning was announced on September 26, dissident republicans approached members of PIRA who they believed might be disgruntled as a result of that statement, hoping to obtain weapons from them, but there has been no evidence of any success.”