PSNI Chief: Provisional IRA Still Exists

The Provisional IRA remains in existence but is not engaged in terror-related activities, Northern Ireland's senior police officer has said. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable George Hamilton said some of the organisation's structures from the 1990s remain, although the group's purpose has changed. He added that while individual members of the Provisional IRA (PIRA) cooperated in the shooting death of Kevin McGuigan in East Belfast, there is no evidence the killing was san