IMC Report

Well, it's out. The long-awaited first report of the year by the Independent Monitoring Commission. Although the DUP and Sinn Féin will be issuing their usual inflexible rhetoric, the report contains absolutely nothing we didn't know or expect.

Durng the period under review, the IRA has committed no terrorist offences, no beatings, no bank robberies. But some of its members are still involved in organised crime (inexcusable). And the IRA's still gathering intelligence (which might explain why Peter Hain's actions over the last 3 months demonstrate a growing lack of it).

The most interesting nugget is the IMC's statement that the IRA has made no recruitments. How does it know, I wonder?