Gerry Kelly: Kevin McGuigan's killers 'do not represent Republicanism'

A member of the Stormont Assembly is echoing comments from the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams that "the IRA is gone and is not coming back".

Gerry Kelly: Kevin McGuigan's killers 'do not represent Republicanism'

A member of the Stormont Assembly is echoing comments from the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams that "the IRA is gone and is not coming back".

Gerry Kelly was speaking in light of the controversy which erupted when a PSNI detective last week linked the organisation to the murder of Kevin McGuigan.

The Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Justice, Charlie Flanagan and Frances Fitzgerald, are to meet the Northern Secretary next week to discuss the political fallout of the killing.

Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly insisted this morning there's no evidence that the IRA is active in any way.

He also rejected reports that any former members have been carrying out their own investigations into the murder of Gerard 'Jock' Davison in Belfast earlier this year:

Mr Kelly said: "I can't make it more definite than this - whoever is involved in this, whatever they claim for themselves, whatever everybody else claims for them - I can tell you they do not represent Republicanism.

"The killings were wrong, they have carried out an act which they should be brought to justice for."

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