Northern Secretary calls on loyalists to follow IRA's lead

Loyalist terror groups need to catch up with the IRA in convincing people in the North they are committed to abandoning paramilitarism and crime, Shaun Woodward said today.

Loyalist terror groups need to catch up with the IRA in convincing people in the North they are committed to abandoning paramilitarism and crime, Northern Secretary Shaun Woodward said today.

After the publication of the latest report assessing paramilitary activity by the Independent Monitoring Commission, Woodward called on loyalist leaders to deliver on their promises by decommissioning their weapons.