The move will be greatly welcomed by the authorities on both sides of the border, as the unpredictable group has shown itself capable of sparking off deadly cycles of violence.
The ceasefire will be welcomed both for its own sake and as confirmation that the Omagh bombing has generated a powerful wave of anti-violent feeling.Several days ago the Irish Republican Socialist party, the INLA’s political wing, announced “that there is now no basis for the continuation of armed struggle by Irish republicans”.The group has been responsible for roughly 140 murders since it was formed in the mid-1970s, breaking away from the old Official IRA. A CEASEFIRE announcement by the Irish National Liberation Army is believed to be imminent, according to sources in Belfast An announcement is due today, they said last night. Ozon is a compassionate, hugely talented artist – look out for the first showing of his debut feature, a black comedy called Sitcom, at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Monday.
ICA, The Mall, London SW1 (0171-930 3647)Hitchcock’s Psycho (above) now looks like a textbook lesson in how to pre-empt, manipulate and booby-trap an audience’s expectations. Anecdotes about Kendo Nagasaki, Mick McManus, Big Daddy (right) and many more delivered with ringside fervour.
Pleasance, Edinburgh (0131-556 6550) 12.10pmA Little Requiem for Kantor pays homage to the legendary Polish director Tadeusz Kantor: an oddly enchanting tangle of bandage, broken umbrellas, muttered laments and a soaring classical score.. Edinburgh Festival `98: Film Ryan Gilbey

YOU ONLY have one more week to catch the most original film currently on show in London.

Majorettes in Space: Five Gay Tales from France showcases exciting work from young French directors, the best of it by Francois Ozon, represented by two shorts: A Little Death is the affecting story of a photographer who finds an unusual way of bonding with his dying father; the very funny A Summer Dress concerns a teenager bored with his boyfriend’s “stupid fag songs”. The first part of the movie is my favourite – the sense of barely sustained banality beneath which immoral acts are being conceived.On general releaseDemarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh (0131-556 8409) 7.30pm. Edinburgh Festival `98: Theatre Dominic Cavendish

ALEX LOWE’S one-man-show, The Wrestling – based on Simon Garfield’s book of the same name – is a humorous, affectionate tribute to a toppled giant of a sport which manages to avoid sentimentality even as it headlocks you into a state of nostalgia. Yo La Tengo are coming up to their 15th year together, and while they might never make the absolute big time, they should never be written off. One of their many loyal fans is Hal Hartley, who directed their last video, while film buffs will know them as the musicians who played the Velvet Underground in I Shot Andy Warhol.Jaffa Cake, Edinburgh (0131-226 5138) Sun 8pm. Classical Duncan Hadfield

SIR DONALD TOVEY is nowadays perhaps best remembered as an eminent musicologist.

Yet the Reid Professor of Music in Edinburgh from 1914 until his death in 1940 was also a virtuoso pianist and a composer in his own right. A Tribute Concert takes place on his home soil today with Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The programme includes piano duets and the Piano and Cello concertos, with Richard Goode (right). Usher Hall, Edinburgh (0131-473 2000) 4.30pm
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Vassily Sinaisky, joins pianist Howard Shelley for a curious hybrid: featured Proms composer Karol Szymanowski’s Fourth and last Symphony, the Sinfonia Concertante: part concerto, part symphony. Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, completes the concert, continuing this summer’s ongoing exploration of `political” music, with its texts by Yevtuschenko openly attacking the Stalinist regime Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 (0171-589 8212) 7.30pm. Pop Tim Perry

ONE OF the Flux Festival’ s most anticipated evenings comes this weekend with two shows by Nick Cave (right). With the Bad Seeds absent, it’s still bound to be an inspiringly moody and intense show.