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Irish Militant Group Threatens Bankers With 'Punishment Shootings'

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Northern Irish militant group Real I.R.A., an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, has turned its violent focus on bankers and banks, in response to...

Northern Ireland Car Bomb Dismantled By British Army

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

DUBLIN — British Army experts dismantled a dud car bomb Tuesday outside a police base in the Northern Ireland border town of Newtownhamilton, th...

IRA Bomb Threatens Northern Ireland Peace Process

Posted 05.25.2011

(AP) DUBLIN -- Northern Ireland's police commander denounced Irish Republican Army dissidents Tuesday for giving his officers just 17 minutes to evacu...

Real IRA Leader's Brother, Michael Campbell, Arrested In Arms Sting

Press Association | Sarah Stack | Posted 05.25.2011

A brother of one of the men blamed for the Omagh bomb atrocity paid €10,000 (£8,600) to arm the Real IRA with guns and explosives from Lithuania, a...

Real IRA: Journalist Wins Sources Case In Ireland

The Irish Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Suzanne Breen, northern editor of the Sunday Tribune, today won the right to withhold information on the Real IRA from the police after a judge in Bel...

1998 Omagh Bombing: Judge Rules Real IRA Chief Michael McKevitt Responsible

BBC | IRA leader Michael McKevitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt was responsible for the 1998 Omagh bomb, a judge has found. Mr Justice Morgan made the ruling at the High Court in Be...

Northern Ireland Needs Its Own Version of "Brown vs The Board of Education" - and Fast

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Johann Hari

The blood-spilling of the past week - and the rock-solid resistance to it - should lead us to a new political cry. Prime Minister Brown, Taoiseach Cowen, First Minister Robinson - tear down this wall between Northern Ireland's children.

Police Race To Stop Real IRA Bomb Plot

The Guardian | Henry McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011

Security forces on both sides of the Irish border are hunting tonight for a dissident republican bomb, after intelligence reports the Real IRA has smu...

Northern Ireland Attacks Unite Region's Politics

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Two deadly attacks on Northern Ireland security forces in the past few days have raised fears that the province may be returning to an era of violence...

Continuity IRA Claim Responsibility For Killing Policeman In Northern Ireland

Belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Dissident Republican group the Continuity IRA today claimed responsibility for last night's brutal murder in Co Armagh. ...

Real IRA Claims Responsibility For Execution-Style Murder Of 2 Soldiers

Telegraph | Ben Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

The "South Antrim unit" of the splinter group claimed responsibility in a coded phone call to the Sunday Tribune newspaper in Dublin. In a statement,...