The Irish and British governments were today awaiting the latest independent assessment of IRA activity.
The Independent Monitoring Commission is due to hand over its latest report to both governments tomorrow and they in turn are expected to publish the report mid week.
The Commission – its other members are ex-Metropolitan police officer John Grieve, ex CIA deputy director Dick Kerr and former Irish civil servant Joe Bronson – is also expected to state that loyalists paramilitaries are reducing, but have not halted, their illegal activities.
The report is the eighth compiled by the four-man team and was specially commissioned by the two governments last October....