Arms talks are backed Reynolds

THE FORMER Taoiseach, Mr Albert Reynolds, has said that a confidential meeting of the republican and loyalist leaderships to …

THE FORMER Taoiseach, Mr Albert Reynolds, has said that a confidential meeting of the republican and loyalist leaderships to work out a "practical decommissioning programme that both sides full support" was a possible means of moving the peace process forward.

Speaking at a conference entitled "Peace Process - Where to now?" Mr Reynolds said the peace process had become "bedeviled by the inactivity of both governments and by the political paralysis of forthcoming parliamentary elections" in Britain and Ireland.

He also called for another public inquiry into Bloody Sunday.