Adams & McGuinness Resign From The IRA Army Council

The BBC website has posted a reasonably good summary of the last few days political activity surrounding the impending IRA statement.

In fairness, there’s been a lot of movement since the weekend and the top people at Sinn Fein have been meeting with both the British and Irish prime ministers. Apparently now Martin McGuinness is jetting off Stateside to brief supporters on the future direction of the IRA.

Hilariously, Michael McDowell, the Irish Justice Minister has weighed in by deducing that this proves there was a structural link between the two groups. Great work Einstein, glad to have you on the team!

Finally, the view from the Unionist bench (courtesy of Sir Reginald Empey) is that everyone’s bored with IRA statements and - rightly - their actions following any statement will be the deciding factor. Apparently he and the rest of the Unionist community will not be losing any sleep over the forthcoming announcement….