Article: Time to decommission weapons, Kirkham tells loyalists.

LOYALIST paramilitary groups must seriously consider decommissioning over the next few months, a Newtownabbey councillor stated this week.

Councillor Tommy Kirkham made his comments during a speech to the South East Antrim Beyond Conflict group in Larne on Saturday.

The loyalist representative, who has been a spokesperson for the UDA in South East Antrim for several years, gave an assurance that "the war is definitely over".

"All loyalist groupings must consider decommissioning seriously within the next few months. If the war is over, and we would like to state quite clearly that for those in South East Antrim the war is definitely over, then ...

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