Good News For Ireland

Thank gawd this chapter in history is over.

An independent report published today is expected to conclude that the IRA has been effectively wound-down as a terrorist organisation.

The 12th report by the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) will say that the Provisionals have closed their bomb-making divisions and are no longer accepting new members. Applicants are being directed to join Sinn Fein.

It will also show that intelligence-gathering on security force members has stopped, training and the procurement of weapons has ended, and the organisation has resisted approaches from the community for it to punish anti-social elements.

And while it will acknowledge the continued involvement of individual IRA members in crime, the Commission is expected to highlight the resolute line of the IRA leadership in discouraging criminal activity.

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