This was my goal this year, to give it a big push and go back to the top.

It must weaken ETA's self-confidence.

I'm pretty excited about it, it's been a long four years. It's been a big goal of mine to get back to the top and I wanted to prove it to myself I could do it one more time.

The Basque nationalists have always looked at Northern Ireland out of the corner of their eye and this week's IRA announcement is bound to have some impact.