Shankill bomber freed ahead of historic statement

THE IRA is within hours of making its historic statement that it is to end a campaign of violence that has dominated Irish political life for more than a generation.

Meanwhile, an IRA bomber who was returned to jail was last night released in the North in expectation of the statement.

Sean Kelly, who killed nine people in a bomb attack on a fish shop on Belfast's Shankill Road, was granted temporary release pending application to the Sentence Review Commission.