Since the Good Friday Agreement was endorsed by the people, and overwhelmingly by Nationalists, North and South, any possible basis for continued armed struggle was removed. In August 1998, the INLA – it had been prepared to move before the Omagh bomb – recognised the futility of continuing and declared a firm ceasefire, which, in my opinion, it has kept ever since, whatever about the unlawful activities of a certain number of its members. The Sunday Business Post suggested, on 13 October 2002, that most of the original Real IRA leaders in Portlaoise prison believe that the organisation no longer has any future. According to the report, they were interested in the possibility of early prison releases arising from a permanent ceasefire by the entire organisation. However, it has since emerged that the organisation, inside and outside the prison, was split.