MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The ongoing political crisis in Northern Ireland, sparked by a murder linked to the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA), is unlikely to be settled soon, a representative of the Irish republican political party Sinn Fein told Sputnik on Sunday.
The Northern Irish regional government has been plunged into a crisis, sparked by a murder allegedly carried out by members of IRA in August. The terrorist group was thought to have been disbanded until the murder. The Irish republican political party Sinn Fein, that rules together with the Democratic Unionist Party in the power-sharing executive, has come under scrutiny for its ties to the IRA.
"All previous attempts to solve Ulster [Unionist Party] crisis have not worked out, it will not be successful this time as well… The present crisis in [the Northern Ireland Assembly] is a made-up crisis… It's greed that is involved there. It will continue," Diarmuid MacDubhghlais said.
On Monday, a three-person panel appointed by UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers is expected to start examination of findings from the security agencies on the scope of the organized crime in the province.
"The only thing Britons have not tried is saying 'we are going to get out,' set a time schedule for getting out, and leave the ruling of all of Ireland to the Irish people," MacDubhghlais said.
In August, a senior officer leading the investigation of McGuigan's murder said that the Sinn Fein party could be excluded from Northern Ireland's government over alleged involvement in the IRA activities.
