Bomber ruling 'within two weeks' Aug 18, 2009
Page last updated at 20:50 GMT, Monday, 17 August 2009 21:50 UK. Bomber ruling 'within two weeks. (BBC News -- Africa)
Water crisis to hit Asian food Aug 18, 2009
Page last updated at 03:55 GMT, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 04:55 UK. Bali's traditional irrigation system needs to face the future, experts say. (BBC News -- Science)
Vilnius 'Real IRA' trial to open Aug 18, 2009
A man charged with trying to buy arms and explosives for the dissident Irish republican organisation the Real IRA is to go on trial in Lithuania ... His brother, Liam, is believed to be a senior Real IRA member, which opposes British rule in Northern Ireland ... The Real IRA has claimed responsibility for a number of serious attacks, including the shooting of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland in March. (BBC News -- UK)
Man arrested over soldier murders Aug 4, 2009
Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey died in the Real IRA attack ... Sappers Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham and Azimkar, 21, from Wood Green, London were killed by the Real IRA outside their barracks as they collected pizzas. (BBC News)
Police DPP disruption 'juvenile' Aug 1, 2009
Page last updated at 21:30 GMT, Friday, 31 July 2009 22:30 UK. Police DPP disruption 'juvenile. (BBC News -- UK)
2nd N.Ireland man charged with killing soldiers Jul 23, 2009
The Real IRA splinter group claimed responsibility for the March 7 gun attack on off-duty troops outside an army base. Two soldiers aged 21 and 23 died, while two pizza deliverymen were wounded. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Man charged with NI soldier murders Jul 23, 2009
Sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar died in the Real IRA attack ... The soldiers were killed by the Real IRA outside the barracks as they collected pizzas they had earlier ordered. (BBC News -- Europe)
Argentina steps up efforts to control swine flu Jul 22, 2009
Police officials did not blame the violence on any one group, but Sinn Fein officials, who represent Catholics in the power-sharing government, blamed the Real IRA, a Catholic splinter group opposed to reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics. Political parties on both sides of the government condemned the violence and vowed that it would not stymie the progress already made in resolving decades of conflict. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Real IRA blamed for Belfast riots Jul 14, 2009
The Real IRA has been blamed by Sinn Fein for trouble in north Belfast ... "Myself and many people were looking at people last night that we'd never seen in the area before in our lives. "It was as if people had been bussed into the area for this very purpose and that this was being very much orchestrated," he said. Disturbances continued in Ardoyne into the night Violence in the area continued into Monday night, with petrol bombs, fireworks, stones, and bottles thrown at police after they tried... (BBC News -- Europe)
MPs 'insult' at Omagh bomb report Jul 14, 2009
The 1998 Real IRA attack killed 29 people and two unborn babies. The NI Affairs Committee expressed disquiet after its chairman was refused the full findings of Sir Peter Gibson's report on intercept intelligence. (BBC News -- UK)
US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed' Jul 1, 2009
Page last updated at 02:13 GMT, Friday, 1 December 2006. US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed. (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
* World News Quick Take Jul 1, 2009
They included the Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Hezbollah, leftwing FARC rebels in Colombia, the Real IRA in Northern Ireland, and a Tutsi rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo. URUGUAY. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Inquest into Real IRA man's death Jun 25, 2009
An inquest into the death of a Real IRA man will get under way in Armagh later ... The 35-year-old had served time in jail in the Republic for running a Real IRA training camp. (BBC News -- UK)
Journalist Wins Right to Withhold Information on the Real IRA Jun 20, 2009
19, 2009 Sunday Tribune journalist Suzanne Breen (right) congratulates her legal council Arthur Harvey QC outside the High Court in Belfast, after she won the right today to withhold information about the Real IRA from the police ... A prominent investigative reporter in Northern Ireland, Suzanne Breen received the phone call from the Real IRA claiming responsibility for the murder of two British soldiers at Massereene army barracks in March an attack that stunned Northern Ireland and stoked... (Time.com)
Judge to rule on Real IRA case May 9, 2009
The PSNI is trying to force Suzanne Breen to hand over material linked to two Real IRA articles ... Ms Breen received the Real IRA's claim of responsibility for the murder of two soldiers at Massereene barracks in March. (BBC News -- UK)
Growing threat? May 8, 2009
Although the Real IRA and Continuity IRA have not tried to shoot anyone since they murdered two soldiers and a policeman in March, the report implies it is only a matter of time ... Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey were murdered by the Real IRA. (BBC News -- UK)
Man shot dead in village attack Apr 28, 2009
Page last updated at 06:45 GMT, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 07:45 UK. Police cordoned off the scene of the shooting. (BBC News -- UK)
SF criticise 'Real IRA' message Apr 14, 2009
The Real IRA shot dead two soldiers in March. Sinn Fein has criticised a statement made at a dissident republican demonstration in Londonderry by a man claiming to represent the Real IRA. ... Two soldiers shot dead in Antrim last month were both killed by the Real IRA.. (BBC News -- UK)
IRA dissidents threaten to kill Sinn Fein official Apr 13, 2009
A statement from the outlawed Real IRA distributed to Irish media branded McGuinness a traitor because he holds the top Irish Catholic post in Northern Ireland's government, which shares power with British Protestants ... The Real IRA also claimed responsibility yesterday for a long-disputed killing of a Sinn Fein official who was exposed in 2006 as a British spy ... An Irish weekly newspaper, the Sunday Tribune, published an interview with an unidentified Real IRA spokesman in which the... (Boston Globe)
Shot soldiers' parade backed Apr 10, 2009
He said the parade would be a fitting tribute to the soldiers, who were murdered by the Real IRA just before they were due to head to Afghanistan. Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, were part of 38 Engineer Regiment. (BBC News -- UK)
'New surge' in shootings Apr 9, 2009
Groups such as the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA are believed to be involved while another organisation calling itself Oglaigh na hEireann has claimed responsibility for 15 attacks in the past year. A doctor who has treated many of the victims at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital, told the BBC he was again treating similar wounds to those he witnessed during the height of The Troubles. (BBC News -- UK)
Sectarian Tension Returns to Northern Ireland Apr 5, 2009
This spate of security disruptions is widely believed to be the work of dissident republican terrorists such as the Real IRA and Continuity IRA and their supporters, who are all opposed to Northern Ireland's power-sharing government ... "There is a direct link between these activities and organized crime both North and South of the Irish border ", says Tom Conlan, security analyst with The Irish Times, who claims the weapons used by the Real IRA to murder the two British soldiers in County... (Time.com)
Irish teen arrested over troops' deaths Apr 2, 2009
A splinter group called the Real IRA claimed responsibility for the gun attack on the army base. The victims - army engineers aged 21 and 23 who were only hours away from beginning a tour of duty in Afghanistan - were the first soldiers killed in Northern Ireland since the IRA ceasefire of 1997. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Republican charged with killing soldiers Mar 28, 2009
Responsibility for the murders were claimed by the Real IRA, paramilitaries who broke off from the main IRA in 1997. Duffy came to prominence in the 1990s after being acquitted of the IRA murder of a soldier when it emerged that a central witness was a loyalist paramilitary. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Irish republican charged in soldiers' slayings Mar 28, 2009
The Real IRA, a splinter group opposed to Northern Ireland's peace process, claimed responsibility. Duffy split with Sinn FeinPolice long have branded Duffy the leading Irish republican on the Catholic north side of Lurgan, southwest of Belfast, which in recent years has become a power base for IRA dissidents. (MSNBC -- International)
Man charged over N Ireland killings Mar 27, 2009
The dissident republican Real IRA shot Sappers Azimkar and Quinsey outside Massereene barracks, while the dissident republican Continuity IRA claimed the murder of Constable Carroll. Four other people, including two pizza delivery men - Anthony Watson, 19, from Antrim and a Polish man in his 30s - were injured in the attack on the County Antrim barracks. (BBC News -- Europe)
N Ireland: man in court Mar 27, 2009
The murders of sappers Mark Quinsey (23) and Cengiz "Patrick" Azimkar (21) were claimed by the Real IRA (Irish Republican Army), paramilitaries who broke off from the main IRA in 1997 and still oppose the peace process. Duffy came to prominence in the 1990s after being acquitted of the IRA murder of a soldier when it emerged that a key witness was a loyalist paramilitary committed to Northern Ireland being part of Britain. (iAfrica.com)
World Watch: Nervous Stability In Northern Ireland Mar 26, 2009
March 25, 2009 5:00 AM. Nervous Stability In Northern Ireland. (CBS News -- World)
N Ireland: teen charged Mar 24, 2009
Four people remain in custody meanwhile over the 7 March killings of the British soldiers at the gates of the Massereene Barracks in Antrim, northwest of Belfast, which were claimed by the Real IRA, another splinter group ... The Independent Monitoring Commission, which monitors the progress of paramilitaries, previously warned that the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA had been increasingly active over a six-month period up to November 2008. (iAfrica.com)
N. Ireland Teen Charged in Gun Attack on Policeman Mar 24, 2009
A rival splinter gang, the Real IRA, admitted responsibility for that attack, which also wounded two other soldiers and both pizza couriers. The killings were the first of British security forces since 1998, the year that leaders of the British Protestant majority and Irish Catholic minority achieved a peace accord designed to end the three-decade conflict over Northern Ireland. (Fox News)
Murder arrest man refusing food Mar 22, 2009
He died just 48 hours after two soldiers were shot dead by the Real IRA at an army base in Antrim. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Life cut short Mar 19, 2009
Hundreds lined the streets where the soldier - one of two killed by the Real IRA in Northern Ireland - once lived and at least 100 more walked behind his coffin. Shopkeepers stopped work and came out to watch. (BBC News -- UK)
Eyes on Ireland Mar 18, 2009
The villains were from dissident groups, known as the real IRA and the Continuity IRA, that can't abide by peace and all it represents. They fight on, in a futile war of unification with the Republic of Ireland in the south that the Irish Republican Army itself abandoned more than a decade ago. (Albany Times Union)
'Massacre' Threat Cancels St. Patrick's Day Parade Mar 18, 2009
Over the weekend, police in Lurgan came under petrol bomb attack from rioters as they carried out searches in connection with the investigation into the Real IRA murder of two soldiers in Antrim March 7. Last Friday Jackie McDonald, the leader of the Ulster Defense Association, Northern Ireland s largest loyalist paramilitary group, told The Times he was concerned about graffiti in loyalist areas of Lurgan which referred to a "St Patrick s Day massacre.". (Fox News)
Amid threats, Northern Ireland clings to peace Mar 18, 2009
But security experts and community leaders say this is could be just the beginning of a planned campaign by dissident republican groups, like the Real IRA and Continuity IRA, which claimed responsibility for the recent violence. Along with emerging loyalist groups fueled by retaliatory desires the extremists appear bent on stoking dormant sectarian hatreds and imploding the province's decade-old peace. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Funeral for murdered NI soldier Mar 18, 2009
The funeral of one of the two soldiers shot dead by the Real IRA in Northern Ireland is to take place later. Mark Quinsey, 23, was murdered with his colleague Patrick Azimkar as they took delivery of a pizza at Massereene Barracks in Antrim earlier this month. (BBC News -- UK)
Northern Ireland official blasts dissident IRA Mar 17, 2009
Chief Constable Hugh Orde said two dissident groups, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA, were both "very dangerous, like any cornered animal in its death throes.". Orde said the dissidents had launched at least 25 attacks, chiefly against police, in the past 18 months, leading up to last week's gun attacks against off-duty soldiers outside an army base. (San Francisco Chronicle)
9 suspects held for N. Ireland killings Mar 17, 2009
A splinter group called the Real IRA claimed responsibility. Two days later, a 48-year-old policeman was shot in the head after his unit responded to an emergency call from a woman whose home was being attacked by stone-throwing youths. (MSNBC -- International)
Omagh bomb relatives to meet MPs Mar 16, 2009
Twenty-nine people were killed when a Real IRA car bomb exploded in the town. The House of Commons' NI Affairs Committee is at Stormont on Monday for a series of evidence sessions. (BBC News -- UK)
New Irish violence after republican arrest over murder Mar 16, 2009
The Real IRA has claimed responsibility for the attack. Mr Duffy split from mainstream republicanism after Sinn Fein decided to back the new Police Service of Northern Ireland. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
N. Ireland police: IRA dissidents number 300 Mar 16, 2009
Chief Constable Hugh Orde said two dissident groups, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA, were both "very dangerous, like any cornered animal in its death throes.". Orde said the dissidents had launched at least 25 attacks, chiefly against police, in the past 18 months, leading up to last week's gun attacks against off-duty, unarmed soldiers outside an army base and against police responding to an emergency call. (MSNBC -- International)
Nine still questioned on murders Mar 16, 2009
Soldiers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, were shot dead at Massereene barracks in Antrim last Saturday by the Real IRA.. The man who was arrested on Saturday night over the killings was detained in the Antrim area. (BBC News -- UK)
Four questioned over N. Ireland soldier killings Mar 15, 2009
The Real IRA, a dissident republican group, claimed responsibility for the March 7 attack which killed sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Cengiz "Patrick" Azimkar, 21, in the first such killings for over a decade ... The Continuity IRA and the Real IRA are both splinter groups of the IRA, which was the military wing of Catholic socialists Sinn Fein, now sharing power with the Democratic Unionists ... The Real IRA was behind Northern Ireland's most deadly attack, the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Riots erupt in N. Ireland after 3 arrested Mar 15, 2009
Saturday's arrests came a week after the Real IRA splinter group fired more than 60 bullets at several unarmed, off-duty soldiers outside an army base as they collected pizzas. Two soldiers, aged 21 and 23, died and four other people were seriously wounded, including both pizza delivery men whom the Real IRA described as legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the enemy. (MSNBC -- International)
Three IRA men arrested in slayings Mar 15, 2009
Saturday's arrests came a week after the Real IRA splinter group ambushed unarmed soldiers outside an army base as they getting pizzas. Two soldiers, ages 21 and 23, died and four other people were seriously wounded, including both pizza delivery men - whom the Real IRA described as legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the enemy. (Insight on the News)
Arrests In N. Ireland Troop, Cop Killings Mar 15, 2009
One splinter group, the Real IRA, claimed Saturday's attack on the soldiers, which also wounded two other soldiers and two pizza delivery men; another, the Continuity IRA, admitted killing Carroll. Both dissident camps oppose the IRA's historic decisions to cease fire in 1997 and to renounce violence and disarm in 2005 in support of power-sharing, the central goal of the Good Friday pact. (CBS News)
Alleged IRA dissidents held in killings Mar 15, 2009
Yesterday's arrests came a week after the Real IRA splinter group fired more than 60 bullets at several unarmed, off-duty soldiers outside an army base as they received a pizza delivery, the first of two deadly gun attacks against British security forces. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Back to the past in Northern Ireland Mar 15, 2009
Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams, once dissident republicans themselves, have been unequivocal in their repudiations of the killings, albeit neither has used the word "murder." Pundits say that the splinter groups Real IRA and Continuity IRA have no base in the republican community: things have moved on and the past is over with. Of course, the past is never over with. (Boston Globe)
Talks with dissidents ruled out Mar 15, 2009
Page last updated at 17:27 GMT, Saturday, 14 March 2009. The government has ruled out holding talks with dissident republicans following the murders of two soldiers and a policeman. (BBC News -- UK)
Three arrested over Northern Ireland soldiers' killings Mar 15, 2009
The Real IRA, a dissident republican group, claimed responsibility for the March 7 attack which killed sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Cengiz "Patrick" Azimkar, 21, in the first such killings for over a decade. CCTV footage of the attack - in which four people were also injured in a hail of bullets when the soldiers stepped outside the barracks to receive a pizza delivery - has helped detectives hunting the killers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Belfast's 'new troubles' are really no trouble Mar 14, 2009
So when two soldiers and a policeman were killed this week in a decidedly extraordinary and indecent pair of crimes committed by groups known as the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, there was a collective tensing. In London, there were banner headlines proclaiming the Return of the Troubles and End of Peace. (Globe and Mail)
* Irish police seek common strategy against IRA threats Mar 14, 2009
Their talks at Ordes headquarters in Protestant east Belfast focused on intensified surveillance and eavesdropping of members of two splinter groups, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA, which claimed responsibility for the past weeks fatal shootings of two soldiers and a policeman ... The Real IRA claimed responsibility for that ambush, which also wounded two other soldiers and both pizza couriers. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Murdered NI constable's funeral Mar 13, 2009
Two days before Constable Carroll's murder, two soldiers were shot dead by the Real IRA at Massereene barracks in Antrim. Mrs Carroll said that he had talked about the increasing level of violence before he left for work on Monday. (BBC News -- Europe)
The ‘Troubles’ rumble back home in Queens Mar 13, 2009
Friday March 13, 2009. The Troubles rumble back home in Queens by Paul Leonard, Assistant Editor03/12/2009. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Slain N. Ireland policeman to be buried Mar 13, 2009
" On Thursday, the coffins of Sapper Mark Quinsey, 23 and Sapper Cengiz "Patrick" Azimkar, 21, draped in the British flag and topped with their regimental caps, were slowly borne by black hearses out of Massereene Barracks in Antrim, northwest of Belfast. Colleagues lining the route saluted. The hearses left through the bullet-scratched barracks entrance where Quinsey and Azimkar were ambushed as they collected a pizza delivery. Two other soldiers and two pizza delivery men were seriously... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Northern Ireland: Shadow of the past Mar 13, 2009
A phone call to a Dublin newspaper said the soldiers had been killed by the Real IRA, notorious for the Omagh bombing in 1998. Another bid for recognition came hours later in the name of Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH), which had also claimed ownership of a 300-pound bomb abandoned in January near army barracks in County Down. (The Economist)
CAIR Reaffirms Repudiation of Terror on Anniversary of Madrid Bombings Mar 12, 2009
We unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa'ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a 'Foreign Terrorist Organization. . (PR Newswire)
N. Ireland marches for peace after killings Mar 12, 2009
N. Ireland vigils protest paramilitary killings - CNN.com. N. Ireland vigils protest paramilitary killings. (CNN -- International)
Northern Ireland refuses to cede peace Mar 12, 2009
The Real IRA and Continuity IRA, dissident paramilitary groups, have claimed responsibility for the attacks. After leading the uprising during the Troubles, the IRA signed a peace accord in 1998 and has since pursued its goals through politics. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Real IRA hits back at the heretics Mar 12, 2009
Their attackers were members of the Real IRA. ... What little traction the Real IRA had was soon lost in 1998 by planting a 227-kilogram car bomb in Omagh killing 29 people and two unborn children ... For once the Real IRA has its hated former comrades right where it wants them - in the cross-hairs of the Faustian pact they have made with their former enemy. (The Age, Australia -- Opinion)
NI police discuss dissident threat Mar 12, 2009
The Real IRA said they killed the soldiers, who died in a hail of bullets as they accepted a pizza delivery at about 2120 GMT.. Four men were also injured in the attack. (BBC News -- Europe)
* Protest to target IRA dissidents Mar 12, 2009
Another splinter group, the Real IRA, gunned down the two army engineers, and wounded two other soldiers and two pizza delivery men on Saturday night as Afghanistan-bound troops collected a final Northern Ireland meal at the entrance of their base. Leaders of Northern Irelands 22-month-old coalition of British Protestants and Irish Catholics left for the US yesterday to seek increased US support for their peace process. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Ireland's police seek to stop dissident IRA bomb Mar 12, 2009
Their talks at Orde's headquarters in Protestant east Belfast were expected to focus on intensified surveillance and eavesdropping against members of two splinter groups, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA, which have claimed responsibility for the past week's fatal shootings of two soldiers and a policeman ... The Real IRA claimed responsibility for that ambush, which also wounded two other soldiers and both pizza couriers ... The dissidents have not detonated a car bomb in Northern Ireland since... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Behind Northern Ireland's Latest Killing Spree Mar 12, 2009
RIRA the self-styled Real IRA has said that it killed the soldiers; CIRA Continuity IRA laid claim to gunning down Carroll. Factional splits and bloody internecine feuds were long a feature of the covert paramilitary republican movement, and RIRA and CIRA are dissident groups dedicated to destabilizing the peace process. (Time.com)
German gunman dominates papers Mar 12, 2009
Intelligence reports are said to suggest that the Real IRA brought in a large device from the Republic. Meanwhile, scientists say they know why we like unhealthy, salty food - it puts people in a better mood, while creating similar cravings to drug addiction. (BBC News -- UK)
