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Mon 12 Dec 2002Priority is disposing of IRA guns, says Trimble on impasseMr David Trimble appears agreed with Dublin and London that talk of "disbandment" is unhelpful to negotiations about IRA "acts of completion" to end the political crisis in Northern Ireland.In private briefings in London on Friday the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, sought to persuade influential British journalists not to become fixated with the "D-word" in their assessment of behind-the-scenes efforts to pave the way for the restoration of the Assembly.