Time has come to beat guns into ploughshares

After the Northern election, the wagons are once again slowly starting to circle. As the DUP and Sinn Féin make their trips to Downing Street, the Taoiseach spoke this week in Poland of the debate going on within the Provisional republican movement.

Apparently, all across Ireland, various parts of the IRA are addressing an appeal by Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams that they now “step off the stage'‘; that paramilitarism has to disappear.