Dissident republicans still haven’t gone away you know
SF wants an end to ‘campaign against the community’, but how serious is the threat?
The bonfire built at the bottom of the Lecky Road flyover, on the road in Derry’s Bogside, marking August 15th is lit late on Monday night. Huge crowds attended and election posters of nationalist and unionist politicians were burned. Photograph: Margaret McLaughlin
Twenty years ago, in August 1996, a statement in the name of a Continuity IRA army council highlighted a new threat to the Northern Ireland peace process. That threat from dissident republicans remains to this day.
Back in 1996, the statement was a so-called claim of responsibility that followed a bomb explosion at a Co Fermanagh hotel several weeks earlier.