ABSTRACT
Over the course of post-Agreement period, to argue decommissioning was irrelevant, as Irish Republican Army (IRA) could decommission one day and rearm the next. The result of the first 'hothouse' at Hillsborough Castle was an eponymous declaration that attempted to start of devolution to an IRA act of decommissioning. Paramilitary organisation linked to a political party that had endorsed the Belfast Agreement. The dissident threat manifested itself through a series of bombs on the island of Ireland: the Omagh bomb. The Irish government was fully committed to the report's implementation as the Clinton administration's tendency to view Northern Ireland through the prism of the US civil rights. The head of the DFA's Anglo-Irish division at the time admitted that loss of Trimble would result in a Northern Ireland entering a political 'wilderness'. With the benefit of hindsight one can see that keeping the peace process going would help to keep Sinn Fein in the spotlight in the Republican Party.
