Unlike previous chief constables, ChiefConPSNI Simon Byrne, until Wednesday night, had never taken a phone call like that one. It was news that Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was fighting for his life. Analysis by julianoneill ✍️
Firstly, the New IRA had been disrupted but not crushed.
The New IRA is the biggest and most active of the dissident groups which exist as opponents to the 1998 Northern Ireland peace settlement.The other currently active organisation is Arm na Poblachta, There is also the approaching 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which dissidents see as a capitulation by the republican mainstream to continued partition of the island of Ireland into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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