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Sinn Fein leaders are replaced on the IRA Army Council.
(From Belfast Telegraph)
Byline: Jim Cusack
A Dubliner, a Tyrone man and one of the leading IRA figures in Belfast have replaced Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Martin Ferris on the IRA Army Council.
But the three Sinn Fein leaders remain members of the IRA and are still highly influential in the "military" wing of the republican movement.
The three new nominees are close supporters of Adams and McGuinness. One man, in his mid-40s, is from Tyrone, an area where there is said to have been considerable opposition to the idea of "standing down" the organisation.
His elevation is seen as an attempt to stave off the possibility of a split in the mid-Ulster area, traditionally one of the most hardline sections of the IRA.
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