Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Judges in Northern Ireland have had to make new security arrangements for themselves and their families at levels not seen since the height of the Provisional IRA campaign.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
BBC Some former Provisional IRA members are helping dissident republican efforts to wreck the peace process, the paramilitary watchdog has said . The Independent Monitoring Commission said the dissident republican threat was the highest for almost six years. It said most new recruits were "inexperienced young males" but the involvement of former IRA members "significantly added to the...
Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... of the IMC report that she links to it goes into detail about a great number of attacks by the Real IRA. This has been pointed out in the comments of the article by someone. She continues: In fact, the Provisional IRA has disarmed and disbanded. First of all the PIRA has not disbanded, the IMC believes they have disarmed though. Secondly she was talking about "dissident republicans",...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Report by International Monitoring Commission warns dissident threat has reached six-year high Henry McDonald Guardian 4 November 2009 Republican dissidents will shift their attacks across the Irish Sea to mainland Britain if they get the opportunity, the body overseeing paramilitary ceasefires warned today. The International Monitoring Commission also said former Provisional IRA members were helping...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... a Special Branch informer prior to his arrest. The once senior member of the dissident republican Real IRA has been held in a prison somewhere in the south of England ever since. He was arrested yesterday by PSNI detectives who had travelled to England to speak to the Co Antrim man. It is believed Murray had intended to settle somewhere in England with his partner and two young children...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... August, when dissident republicans murdered three members of the security forces. On 7 March, the Real IRA shot dead army engineers Mark Quinsey, 23, and 21-year-old Patrick Azimkar at the Massereene army base in Antrim. Two days later, the Continuity IRA shot PSNI Constable Stephen Paul Carroll in Craigavon, County Armagh. There have since been 11 attempts to kill other PSNI officers. The...
