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Inside Northern Ireland’s growing terrorist threat

By Tom Rogan
Published September 1, 2017 8:47pm ET
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Inside Northern Ireland’s growing terrorist threat
The Belfast skyline. (Wikimedia) Were it able to do so, the New-IRA would likely attempt to use its explosives to target British interests on British soil. It's for that reason the U.K. government has ramped up its attention toward the terrorist group since 2016. | paulrommer

The political history of Northern Ireland is a painful one.

In 1916, Irish separtists took up arms seeking independence from the British Empire and a few years later suceeded in winning an independent Republic of Ireland. Yet tensions between loyalists, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of Great Britain, and the separatists or republicans, who wanted a completely unified Ireland, continued.

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