Last weekend’s car bomb outside Derry’s courthouse raises questions about dissident republicanism and the threat it still poses, writes David Young. It has also raised uncomfortable questions about dissident republicanism and the threat it still poses, 21 years on from the Good Friday Agreement. In April 2011, freshly qualified PSNI officer Ronan Kerr was killed by an undercar booby trap bomb outside his home in Omagh, Co Tyrone. But, prior to last Saturday, there had been evidence the New IRA, and the other dissident groupings, were becoming less active. Though these statistics all point to a gradual deterioration of dissident capacity and intent, they do not tell the full story.

Source: Irish Examiner January 26, 2019 00:00 UTC