Ahern: 'Govt awaiting peace moves from republicans'
Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has reiterated the Government's stance that it is up to Sinn Féin to make moves to revive the peace process.
Speaking after a meeting of the British-Irish Inter-Governmental Conference in Dublin today, Mr Ahern said he was waiting to hear from Sinn Féin on whether republicans were willing to decommission and end criminality.
Meanwhile, Northern Secretary Paul Murphy said he believed the IRA was intimidating people to stop them giving evidence to the police about the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney.
This is despite the organisation's insistence that everyone with information should come forward and that threats issued in the name of the IRA would not tolerated.
Elsewhere, asked about reports that IRA inmates at Castlerea Prison were effectively in control of their own section of the prison, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said he would move the men if it was proved that the reports were true.
