The IRA's decommissioning of its weapons is an historic moment, writes our Northern Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald: It is the end of republicanism. If, he says, republicanism is defined as 'the historic right to wage armed struggle against the British Army, its locally recruited police and the British Establishment (then) ... the Long War has failed".
However, as Angelique Chrisafis says in her audio report, it may take some time to convince the unionists of such a momentous declaration.
