Police: Dissidents may try attacks as Northern Ireland marks peaceA view of the Lanark Way interface gates, which allow traffic to move between the Republican and Loyalist areas of Belfast, in Northern Ireland during limited times of the day and which has been recently painted ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Associated PRessLONDON -- Police have warned that armed dissident groups are planning violent attacks over the Easter holiday weekend as Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the peace accord that ended three decades of bloodshed. U.S. President Joe Biden is due to visit Belfast next week as Northern Ireland commemorates the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998. The U.S.-brokered deal got Irish republican and British loyalist paramilitary groups to lay down their arms and setup a power-sharing government for Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for more than a year, after the main unionist party pulled out of the government to protest new post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland.

Source: The Herald April 08, 2023 05:17 UTC