IMC to be shut down despite warning of continuing dissident threat

A watchdog set-up by the Irish and British governments to monitor paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland is to be shut down, it was announced today.

A watchdog set up by the Irish and British governments to monitor paramilitary violence in the North is to be shut down, it was announced today.

Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) will file a final report for the governments on the lessons it has learned after six years spent studying the dismantling of armed factions.