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Moulin Yarns
19-01-2019, 09:08 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46934277

Shocked.
Jack Hackett
19-01-2019, 10:07 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46934277

Shocked.

Not any more, sadly.
Moulin Yarns
20-01-2019, 09:00 AM
No claims for responsibility so far as I know.
Hibbyradge
20-01-2019, 09:06 AM
Wait till Brexit and the new border arrives.
Pretty Boy
20-01-2019, 09:15 AM
And it begins.

Brexit is going to be a disaster for a peace that was decades in the making.
PeeJay
20-01-2019, 12:37 PM
And it begins.

Brexit is going to be a disaster for a peace that was decades in the making.


You think it ever stopped? - 158 security-related deaths since the GFA - seems strange to refer to that as "peace" - :confused:
Pretty Boy
20-01-2019, 01:16 PM
You think it ever stopped? - 158 security-related deaths since the GFA - seems strange to refer to that as "peace" - :confused:

When you consider there were 3500 deaths in the 20 preceding years, meaning since 1998 the death toll is 4% of the period beginning 1969 until then, I'd argue it's a relative peace.
PeeJay
20-01-2019, 01:22 PM
When you consider there were 3500 deaths in the 20 preceding years, meaning since 1998 the death toll is 4% of the period beginning 1969 until then, I'd argue it's a relative peace.

You can call it what you like - but it's most certainly not "peace" ...
bigwheel
20-01-2019, 01:24 PM
You can call it what you like - but it's most certainly not "peace" ...

Good friends who live in the north tell me that everyday lives in areas such as Belfast are unrecognisable since before the good Friday agreement ... most would agree
Newry Hibs
20-01-2019, 04:38 PM
And it begins.

Brexit is going to be a disaster for a peace that was decades in the making.

I really can't imagine that the guys in charge of the 'new' ira sit around discussing brexit and the pros and cons of May's deal or a 2nd vote or a hard brexit and then decide to plant a bomb.

Their activities are dictated by being under british rule. I don't think they are too bothered about their smuggled fags and booze being held up at a border checkpoint.
Lendo
21-01-2019, 01:30 PM
I noticed that the Daily Mail had turned off comments on their website for this story and haven't reported it at all on their Facebook and Twitter. I wonder, would they have done the same had it been an Islamic terror attack?