Sir, - The IRA won't decommission until the British demilitarise the North, and vice versa. Why not combine both events? There are numerous British watchtowers in the North which will eventually be demolished. Allow the IRA to demolish them - on condition they use all their Semtex to do so.
The IRA could claim that they destroyed these instruments of the British presence; the British could claim that the IRA had now decommissioned all its Semtex, and made a start on overall decommissioning.
The impasse would be over. A Northern Irish solution for a Northern Irish problem. - Yours, etc.,
Sean Leonard, Mautherow, Sligo.