31 January 2003

No IRA disbandment likely in the short term

Whilst Martin McGuinness discounts a formal disbandment of the IRA, he draws attention to the other side of the equation:

"People recognize that against the backdrop of ongoing attacks by the UDA against Catholics, and the failure of the British to demilitarize, that this is something that is not going to go anywhere. So that seems to have gone off the radar screen in the course of recent times."

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