Army Scaled Down Ulster After Ira Weapons Pledge

Evening Standard - London › July 29, 2005

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THE Army's presence in Northern Ireland is to be scaled back drastically after the IRA pledged to hand over all its weapons within eight weeks, it emerged today.

In a bid to build quickly on the momentum of the historic declaration that the IRA's armed struggle" is over, the Government is preparing to demilitarise the Province.

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Army Scaled Down Ulster After Ira Weapons Pledge

An Army watchtower in South Armagh, the heart of bandit country, is to be dismantled within day...

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