Orde: 'Report is best proof yet of IRA absence'

Evidence contained in an independent report on IRA activity is as good as it gets in terms of proving the organisation’s campaign of violence is over, the North’s top police officer said today.

Chief Constable Hugh Orde said barring someone from the provisional movement actually standing up and declaring the IRA no longer existed, the assessment by the Independent Monitoring Commission provided the most compelling proof to date.