Paramilitary groups 'must go out of business'

Paramilitary groups must go out of business in the North and stop issuing death threats to all people including civil servants, a senior nationalist politician said today.

After it emerged that a hardline loyalist threat against the life of an Irish Government official working in Belfast had been lifted, nationalist SDLP Assembly member Alban Maginness also insisted the demonising of people working in agencies like the British Irish Secretariat should stop.