Continuity IRA

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Police in Northern Ireland released images of the bomb on Friday. Photograph: PSNI
PSNI releases photographs of bomb intended for Irish Sea ferry

Police in Northern Ireland have released images of the bomb which dissident republicans intended to detonate on an Irish Sea ferry as the UK left the (...)

The Continuity IRA said a ‘small amount of arms and explosive material’ it possessed would be decommissioned. Photograph: PA.
Continuity IRA ‘to end armed campaign’, statement claims

A group saying it represents the leadership of the Continuity IRA has stated it is to end its armed campaign. In a statement to the Limerick Leader o(...)

A paramilitary colour party marches past the GPO as part of the Republican Sinn Féin parade to mark the 1916 Rising.
Splinter groups: Main players among dissident factions

The Continuity IRA has been in existence since the mid-1980s after a split from the mainstream IRA. It was first linked to a number of attacks in the (...)

Widow Joanne McGibbon (centre) with her daughters Michaela and Seana and Fr Gary Donegan (extreme right) joins members of the public at a vigil in the grounds of Holy Cross Church, Ardoyne, in memory of taxi driver and father-of-four Michael McGibbon, who was shot dead in North Belfast at the weekend. Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye
Paramilitaries control NI communities with muscle and fear

At Holy Cross Church in north Belfast last week, Joanne McGibbon said the local Ardoyne community was stronger than those who just days earlier had mu(...)

Unlawful killing verdict at continuity IRA chief’s inquest

Continuity IRA chief Liam Kenny told his daughter three days before his murder he had a “feeling something bad” was going to happen, an inquest has he(...)

The shooting was condemned by the North’s Minister for Justice David Ford. Photograph: Mark Pearce/Pacemaker.
Former leading Continuity IRA member shot dead in Belfast

A former leading member of the Continuity IRA, named locally last night as Tommy Crossan, was shot dead in a fuel depot(...)