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Wed 03 Mar 2009Splintered republican dissident groups are difficult to penetrate
ANALYSIS:THE IRA infamously said after the 1984 Brighton bombing that killed five people, but failed to kill British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, “We were unlucky today, but remember we only have to be lucky once – you will have to be lucky always.”
You can’t be lucky always, which in a way accounts for how the Real IRA gunned to death two British soldiers in Antrim on Saturday night and how 48 hours later the Continuity IRA (CIRA) shot dead PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll in Craigavon.
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