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The IRA has abandoned terrorism and violence, including shootings, assaults or intelligence gathering and a number of its members have taken the political path within Sinn Féin, the latest report of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) has said. The Irish Government said following the latest assessment that there should now be no further delay in the restoration of devolved government in Northern Ireland. The Government further welcomes the report's conclusion that PIRA as an organisation continues not to be involved in criminality Government statement In the IMC's 13 th report, covering the period from September 1 st 2006 to November...

Higgins Outraged When Sinn Fein Leader Stopped By Terrorist Watch List Mar 18, 2006 - A St. Patricks day crowd in South Buffalo didn’t get to hear the star attraction…he was detained in Washington after turning up on a terrorist watch list. Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein was detained at Reagan National Airport. Sinn Fein is the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Congressman Brian Higgins broke the news to hundreds of people celebrating the holiday at the Irish Center in South Buffalo. “We got a call tonight that Gerry Adams is being detained in Washington for in...

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Several hundred Irish Republican army supporters attacked police on Dublin's central boulevard and near the parliament building Saturday to prevent an unprecedented parade by Northern Ireland Protestants. In riotous scenes rarely seen in the Republic of Ireland, protesters hurled bottles, bricks and fireworks, at police as they tried to clear the hostile crowd from O'Connell Street. The Garda Siochana, Ireland's national police force, said 14 people - six officers, seven protesters and a journalist - were hospitalized, mostly with head wounds. More than a dozen other people suffered less serious injuries. The police advised shoppers and...