Sir, - For once, I agree with the unionist stance on IRA arms. How long must we wait until the IRA leadership to realise that the war is over, that safeguards and processes have been put in place that will in due course create a just and equitable society in the North. For all of unionism's faults and David Trimble's arrogance, it is understandable to see patience wearing thin and strains revealing themselves.
But surely as masters of the media stunt, Sinn Fein would argue that some gesture on arms decomissioning would bring it international praise and would be, in PR terms, a "money move".
The common flawed assumption is that politicians own this process. The people North and South, nationalist and unionist own the agreement, it's time parties, like Sinn Fein held its side of the bargain. - Yours, etc.,
James Dunne, Stockholm, Sweden.