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Police exchanged gunfire with dissident republicans and a 400lb bomb was left at the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in an escalation of dissident republican activity over the weekend. While no one was injured in either incident, both...
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Army bomb disposal officers attended the scene of the explosion in the Ashfield Crescent area off the Antrim Road. The base is the home of the North Irish Horse Regiment, a Royal Armoured Corps unit...Derry. Security sources in Northern Ireland have...
Tags: British Territorial Army, Northern Ireland, north Belfast, British Army Base, bomb attack, dissidents republican, bomb exploded, Antrim Road
Threat from dissident republican terror severe, says Northern Ireland chief constable Judith Gillespie warns of danger to officers following Real IRA attempt to kill policeman in Derry The acting chief constable of Northern Ireland today described the...
Tags: Real IRA, mi5 spy, republican terror, chief constable, dissidents republican, Burkina Faso, Ira
A Northern Ireland bomb disposal team has defused a 600-pound explosive device planted near the border with the Irish Republic, officials said Tuesday. The bomb was found near Forkhill, County Armagh, and police believe it was planted by dissident Northern...
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Both citybound and countrybound lanes of the M1 were closed near Lurgan after a hijacked van was abandoned in the area. There were also reports of cars being hijacked in the Kilwilkie estate and the Bell’s Road crossing and Antrim Road in Lurgan. Police...
Tags: Belfast, Northern Ireland, security alert, dissidents republican, Lurgan, bomb scares, police stations, vehicle hijackings, traffic chaos, cause traffic
The widow of a policeman murdered by dissident republicans in County Armagh has said she feels "dead inside". Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, was shot dead as he answered a call for help in Craigavon on Monday evening. His widow, Kate, said part of her...
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At least one police officer was killed tonight after a shooting in Northern Ireland. The incident, in the town of Craigavon, County Armagh, took place about 15 miles from the site of the shooting on Saturday which killed two British soldiers at the Massereene...
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The BBC reported on Thursday that members of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, which has been at the forefront of intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, had returned to Northern Ireland. British army forces in the North without any accountability...
Tags: Northern Ireland Policing Board, British Army, IRA, Republican Army, ira dissidents, chiefs constable, dissidents republican, Iraq, Special Reconnaissance Regiment, Hugh Orde
Sir Hugh Orde and British and Irish ministers have made a direct link between the growing threat from republican dissidents and the Sinn Féin/DUP standoff that has prevented the Northern Executive from properly functioning. The chief constable said at...
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