Sunday 20 July 1997. At 12.00pm the renewed Irish Republican Army (IRA) ceasefire began. There was a report in the Sunday Tribune (a Dublin newspaper) which claimed that the IRA ceasefire would be limited to four months duration dependant on progress during the talks. [Sinn Fein (SF) later denied there was any truth in the report.] [While most people welcomed the renewed ceasefire, Unionist politicians were highly sceptical of the intentions of the Republican movement.] Source: CAIN website http://cain.ulst.ac.uk