Category Archives: Northern Ireland

Posts in category: "Northern Ireland":

Too long a road

09Mar09 – 13:23

Slugger O'Toole's Mick Fealty, writing on the Telegraph Brassneck blog:
As Anthony McIntrye notes, the dissidents have too long a road to travel to realise anything like success:
It will not kick start any campaign on the scale of the failed Provisional IRA armed venture. And if that failed in circumstances that were arguably more propitious for success [...]

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Two killed in Northern Ireland army base shooting.

08Mar09 – 00:34

It seems that the noise that intelligence services were picking up about a heightened threat level in Northern Ireland had some substance. Early reports suggest that two people have been killed and others wounded in a drive-by shooting at an Antrim army base. If these reports are confirmed, it's a tragedy that will reach well [...]

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