UK government names members of panel to assess paramilitary activity

The British government has announced the three members of an independent panel set up to assess paramilitary activity in the North of Ireland.

Lord Carlile of Berriew, a Liberal Democrat member of the Lords; Rosalie Flanagan, a former permanent secretary at Stormont’s Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure; and Northern Ireland-based QC Stephen Shaw make up the body established as part of the UK government’s response to the political crisis at Stormont sparked by a murder linked to the IRA.