This is worth noting for a number of reasons. One, the sheer numbers of people rounded up in the police operation; two the use of Facebook as part of the plan he needs to look at his privacy settings or some of his ‘friends’; and three, the news that this ‘IRA’ is planning to depart from a generations old truce not to commit offences in the Republic. The Dail will be debating the issue about about 5.06pm this evening… Mick …
Under the banner of the “IRA”, the Real IRA, Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) as well as smaller groups often referred to as Óglaigh na hÉireann have formed a “unified structure under a single leadership”. They will be “subservient to the constitution of the Irish Republican Army”. Only the Continuity IRA remains outside the new partnership. Up to now politicians have tended to belittle the dissident threat, pointing to its fragmentation. Consolidated factions under a single brand will surely raise …
In a Guardian report which features a Continuity IRA member’s description of Sinn Féin as “British ministers in a puppet government”, Robin Wilson makes an important point. Now that “the guerillas” are the people in power… From the Guardian report “In theory, the ‘peace process’ culminating in the 1998 Belfast agreement was meant by the inclusion in the political arena of representatives of paramilitary organisations, principally the IRA, to lay the basis for a peaceful region in which all significant political forces, …
