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IRA still has weapons, conducts counterintelligence operations and members believe it oversees Sinn Fein’s strategy
Police have confirmed that a 2015 security assessment – which says the IRA still has weapons, conducts counterintelligence ...
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IRA Army Council and Sinn Fein: Kenny Donaldson says Gerry Adams was right - 'They haven't gone away you know'
A victims campaigner says the infamous words of Gerry Adams regarding the IRA are still valid today: “They haven’t gone away ...
Loyalist ceasefire 30 years on: Co-author of new report on paramilitarism believes ‘transition’ of UVF and UDA could finally occur within five years
Dr John Kyle, the former deputy leader of the PUP, is a member of a think tank that has outlined steps groups must take to ...
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Shankill Bomb 30th Anniversary: Many people on the Falls Road felt ‘horror and revulsion’ at IRA attack, says Máiría Cahill
Many people on the Falls Road felt ‘horror and revulsion’ at the Shankill Bomb which claimed the lives of nine residents 30 years ago this week, Máiría Cahill has said.
Belfast Telegraph9d
‘Peace at last’: The story of the loyalist ceasefires 30 years on
On the 13th October 1994, six weeks after the IRA announced a ‘complete cessation ... of main loyalist paramilitaries - the UVF, UDA and the Red Hand Commando. Although loyalist and ...
Belfast Live on MSN9d
'Providing legitimacy to the Loyalist Communities Council demonstrates the DUP’s hypocrisy'
"In 2015, the DUP demanded Sinn Féin’s exclusion from the Executive over the continued existence of the Provisional IRA. Yet, ...
Belfast Live on MSN2d
Government refuse to confirm plans for an updated paramilitary assessment
The 2015 assessment found that the Provisional Army Council continues to oversee both the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin ...
Constitutional question will be decided by the ballot box, not shadowy figures - The Irish News view
Clearly expressed view of the electorate is that paramilitary groups have no contribution to make to any political ...
belfastmedia4d
THE WEEK IN VIEW: UDA/UVF better behaved than the Ra, says UDA/UVF umbrella group
I HAVE repeatedly stated that the levels of criminality in our community attributable to loyalism is (sic) dwarfed by that ...
The Irish News8d
Constitutional question will be decided by the ballot box, not shadowy figures - The Irish News view
UDA and the Red Hand Commando, announced 30 years ago that loyalists would “universally cease all operational activities”, some six weeks after a similar move by the IRA. Both cessations were ...