Continuity IRA behind bomb attack

A dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA, has admitted responsibility for a bomb attack on a Customs and Excise post …

A dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA, has admitted responsibility for a bomb attack on a Customs and Excise post in Co Fermanagh on Sunday.

The office at Killyhevlin industrial estate outside Enniskillen was unmanned at the time of the attack, which caused minor damage.

In a statement to a local newspaper, the Continuity IRA said it regarded the office as a "Crown target".

A local UUP MLA, Mr James Cooper, called on the North's security minister, Ms Jane Kennedy, to channel every possible resource into countering the threat from dissident republicans.

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