Paramilitary criminality - Disarmament imperative to sustain peace

No matter how much Sinn Féin may denigrate the report of the International Monitoring Commission (IMC), both the Irish and British governments believe its import.

This is that the IRA remains involved in criminality and is still recruiting and training new members.

While that situation remains, Sinn Féin will remain persona non grata despite party president Gerry Adams’s recent appeal to the IRA to abandon the armed struggle for real democracy.