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The violence was greeted with revulsion in both the Catholic and Protestant communities and was condemned by all of Northern Ireland's major political parties, both unionist and nationalist.
The Provisional IRA, the largest and deadliest of the republican paramilitary organizations, declared a cease-fire in 1997 and formally ended its armed campaign in 2005. Sinn Fein has transformed itself from a fringe party to the dominant political party in the Catholic community, and the second largest in Northern...
Over the course of Zapatero's first term, the PP requested that the government answer hundreds of questions about the alleged cover-up, while party leader Mariano Rajoy went so far as to suggest that a key piece of physical evidence - a backpack loaded with explosives - may have been planted...
Although policing still remains a divisive issue in Northern Ireland, the rebranding of the RUC into the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in 2001 changed the image of law enforcement dramatically. A policy of positive discrimination has seen the number of Catholic officers jump from less than 3% to...
On a similar note, Sir Hugh Orde, Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), revealed last week that he had called in reinforcements to help counter the threat posed by dissident republicans. Orde announced the British Army's Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) was supporting the PSNI with...