Time to listen to republican anger

The IRA is sick of being blamed for everything which goes wrong in the peace process and recent developments reflect that, writes Danny Morrison

THE statement issued yesterday afternoon by the IRA, the second in 24 hours, represents an ominous development and a major deterioration in the peace process.

Unlike Wednesday night's lengthy exposition of the IRA's analysis on what went wrong last December when a deal foundered, Thursday's statement was terse and suggested that the talking had finished. Republican frustration and anger has been building for some considerable time.