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| Home Office downgrades threat to England from Irish republican groups | Home Office downgrades threat to England from Irish republican groups |
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| The Home Office has downgraded the threat to London and other targets in England from republican terror groups opposed to the Northern Ireland peace settlement from "substantial" to "moderate". | The Home Office has downgraded the threat to London and other targets in England from republican terror groups opposed to the Northern Ireland peace settlement from "substantial" to "moderate". |
| It follows a downturn in terror attacks within Northern Ireland and the continued inability of anti-ceasefire republicans to mount strategic terror attacks in Britain. | It follows a downturn in terror attacks within Northern Ireland and the continued inability of anti-ceasefire republicans to mount strategic terror attacks in Britain. |
| But the Home Office has warned that the threat level within Northern Ireland itself remains dangerous with the chance of attack in the province described as "severe". | But the Home Office has warned that the threat level within Northern Ireland itself remains dangerous with the chance of attack in the province described as "severe". |
| Much of the reason for the downgrade in threat to England from the likes of the Continuity IRA and a merged terror group styling itself as a new IRA is due to security operations in the Irish Republic. In recent months the Garda Síochána has mounted several arrest operations aimed at disrupting dissident republican activity. | Much of the reason for the downgrade in threat to England from the likes of the Continuity IRA and a merged terror group styling itself as a new IRA is due to security operations in the Irish Republic. In recent months the Garda Síochána has mounted several arrest operations aimed at disrupting dissident republican activity. |
| Last week it arrested nine suspects across the state who gardaí believed were connected to the new IRA – a hardline republican umbrella group made of up the Real IRA, independent republican units and Republican Action Against Drugs in Derry. The so-called new IRA has also been diverted into an increasingly bloody feud with armed criminal gangs who shot dead the former Real IRA "commander" of Dublin earlier this autumn. | Last week it arrested nine suspects across the state who gardaí believed were connected to the new IRA – a hardline republican umbrella group made of up the Real IRA, independent republican units and Republican Action Against Drugs in Derry. The so-called new IRA has also been diverted into an increasingly bloody feud with armed criminal gangs who shot dead the former Real IRA "commander" of Dublin earlier this autumn. |
| During the IRA's campaign between 1969 and 1997 the Provisionals used the Republic as their main logistical base to transport bombs across the Irish Sea into Britain and further afield. While large bombs such as the one in London's Bishopsgate in 1993 and Canary Wharf three years later were built by IRA engineers from south Armagh and were transported to London using personnel from units along the border, the Republic was used as a gateway to smuggle the devices over to England. | During the IRA's campaign between 1969 and 1997 the Provisionals used the Republic as their main logistical base to transport bombs across the Irish Sea into Britain and further afield. While large bombs such as the one in London's Bishopsgate in 1993 and Canary Wharf three years later were built by IRA engineers from south Armagh and were transported to London using personnel from units along the border, the Republic was used as a gateway to smuggle the devices over to England. |
| Much of the Garda success in thwarting the various factions of dissident republicanism is down to human intelligence. The force has been active in recruiting and running informants within all the main terror groups opposed to the peace process. | Much of the Garda success in thwarting the various factions of dissident republicanism is down to human intelligence. The force has been active in recruiting and running informants within all the main terror groups opposed to the peace process. |
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