Irish republican dissident shot in Derry attack
Jimmy Deery, 31, wounded in both legs as rival factions vie for control of Northern Ireland cityA prominent Irish republican dissident has been shot in both legs as rival factions vie for control in...
View ArticleRepublican dissidents join forces to form a new IRA
Exclusive: Merged organisation says it is planning to intensify attacks on security forces and other British-related targetsThree of the four main dissident republican terror groups in Northern Ireland...
View ArticleHow the republican dissidents delivered their statement of unity
Real IRA and other groups went to extraordinary lengths to deliver a statement about a new development in their campaignIn the dark isolation of a dirt track just across the border in the Irish...
View ArticleNew IRA: full statement by the dissident 'Army Council'
Organisation claims Irish people 'have been sold a phoney peace, rubber-stamped by a token legislature in Stormont'This is the full statement released by the new dissident republican group in Northern...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland: keep focused | Editorial
Despite the handshake between Martin McGuinness and the Queen, the peace process is still in need of nurturingFirst the good news: our report of the amalgamation of a disparate group of republican...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland judges use powers to ban naming of alleged drug dealers
One embargo already imposed amid fears the accused could become targets of republican vigilante campaignJudges in Northern Ireland have banned the identification of alleged drug dealers because of...
View Article500 at Dublin funeral of murdered Real IRA man
Paramilitaries turn out for burial of Alan Ryan, who was shot dead in Dublin on MondayAlan Ryan, a murdered member of the Real IRA, was buried in Dublin on Saturday afternoon amid a heavy armed police...
View Article'New IRA' sets two bombs in Derry in attempt to kill security forces
Newly merged republican terrorist group leaves booby-trapped bicycle and pipe bomb in grounds of council officesDissident republicans have left a booby-trap bomb on a bicycle in an attempt to kill...
View ArticleIrish gun thefts spark fears of new Ulster sniper campaign
Security forces trying to trace up to 30 high-powered rifles with telescopic sights stolen from shop by Republican dissidentsAnti-ceasefire republicans have stolen up to 30 high-powered rifles with...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland murder victim's brother under death threat
Daniel Allen, whose brother Andrew was murdered by republican vigilantes earlier this year, is told his life is also under threatThe brother of a Derry man murdered by republican vigilantes earlier...
View ArticleDavid Black: 'new IRA' group claims it murdered prison officer
Republican terror alliance issues statement linking Black's murder to conditions inside Maghaberry prisonA republican terror alliance styling itself as a new IRA has claimed it murdered Northern...
View ArticleMan, 22, arrested over murder of Catholic police recruit
Counter terror police detain Co Tyrone man and a lorry in Milton Keynes over booby trap bomb death of Ronan KerrDetectives investigating the murder by paramilitaries of a Catholic police recruit in...
View ArticleOmagh bombing retrial begins at Belfast high court
Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly are contesting civil court decision that found them liable for 1998 atrocityTwo men sued by the relatives of those killed in the Omagh bomb massacre, who claimed the pair...
View ArticleOmagh bombing suspects fail to turn up at retrial
Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly, who were found liable for the 1998 atrocity in a civil court, won a retrial but refused to attendThe failure of two men accused of playing a central role in the Real IRA...
View ArticleMassereene barracks murder conviction quashed
Belfast court rules verdict unsafe on Brian Shivers, only man convicted over Real IRA murders of two British soldiers in AntrimThe only man convicted of killing two soldiers at a military base in...
View ArticleCross-border co-operation in Northern Ireland 'is saving lives'
Theresa Villiers says working together has helped counter threat from dissident republicans ahead of Anglo-Irish meetingCross-border security co-operation is saving lives in the face of an upsurge in...
View ArticleTwo found liable for Omagh bombing
Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly were retried after they and two others were held liable in civil actionTwo Irish republicans have been found liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing in a civil action against the...
View ArticleIrish court rejects Real IRA founder's appeal over terror conviction
Director of public prosecutions argued that Michael McKevitt's challenge was bound to failIreland's court of criminal appeal has struck out an application by the founder of the Real IRA to overturn his...
View ArticleMan cleared of murdering two soldiers at Massereene barracks
Brian Shivers acquitted at retrial after quashing of original conviction for Ulster shootingsThe only man to be convicted of the Real IRA killing of two soldiers just hours before they were to be...
View ArticleRuairi O'Bradaigh, former IRA chief of staff, dies aged 80
One of Irish republicanism's most longstanding hardliners spent second half of his life denouncing former comrades as selloutsRuairi O'Bradaigh, a former IRA chief of staff and one of Irish...
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