MI5 Targets Dissidents As Irish Terror Threat Grows

Police at a checkpoint in County Down. Sir Hugh Orde, the PSNI Chief Constable,
has confirmed the risk, calling it the highest in a decade Photo: PA

From The Guardian:

The security services are picking up more suspicious activity from Northern Ireland's dissident republicans than from any other radical group in the UK, the Guardian has learned.

Up to 60% of all the security services' electronic intercepts - phonetaps and other covert technical operations - have come from dissidents, despite the threat posed by hundreds of suspected Islamist extremists on the mainland.

MI5 is directing its attention to a hardcore of republicans, fearing they are determined to destabilise the peace process.

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More News On Terror threats In Northern Ireland And the U.K.

Dissident Northern Ireland republican threat 'higher than from Islamic extremists' -- The Telegraph
Threat in NIreland highest in six years: report -- AFP
Bombs and death threats: dissidents step up efforts to derail power-sharing -- The Guardian

My Comment: The last stage of the power sharing agreements between Catholics and Protestants will be the transfer of the judiciary and police forces to the Northern Ireland government. The prospect of a Sein Fein member being the minister responsible for the police force and judiciary is a real possibility .... pitting them against the Real IRA and a situation that has never happened in modern times.

The last Irish civil war was in 1922-1923, a conflict that still reverberates in Ireland today. Another Irish Catholic civil war, but htis time in the north, will probably leave the same bad aftermath.