Dan Keenan in the Irish Times shares the bones of Peter Robinson’s article (subs required) in today’s edition of the paper. It’s probably the first significant story of the summer, marking the beginning of the end to the dullest silly season in Northern Ireland for more than thirty years! Peter Robinson lays out the priniciples under which his party would work with Sinn Fein:
– a “definitive and conclusive end” to paramilitary activity;
– the decommissioning of all paramilitary weapons “to an early time scale and on a convincing basis”;
– a “clear commitment on all sides to the stability of the political institutions and to changes to their operation agreed within the talks”;
– support for policing “from all sides of the community and an agreed framework for the devolution of policing.”
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
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