Irish government says Sinn Fein must help ensure IRA put 'out of business'

Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan stands under pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during his visit to the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem February 18, 2015. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government has called on Sinn Fein to help ensure the Irish Republican Army is put "firmly out of business" after police in Northern Ireland said the party's former military wing might have been involved in a recent murder.

An end to violence by IRA guerrillas was a central plank of a 1998 peace deal in the British province of Northern Ireland that put Sinn Fein into a power-sharing government with pro-British unionists.