Although, according to Jack Holland, the IRA are considering a serious act of decommissioning by mid February, the pressure continues to build on the Sinn Fein over lack of that organisation’s lack of movement on the issue.
With a statement from junior Foreign Affairs Minster Liz O’Donnell’s statement that Sinn Fein be expelled from government there are the first signs that the Republic’s government is prepared to apply serious public pressure on Sinn Fein.
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