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...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. It was these same groups who claimed responsibility for the murders of two British soldiers and a police officer in March. Three men - including a 17-year-old - have since been charged with the killings, and on April 2 a 19-year-old man was arrested in connection to the soldiers' murders. (See pictures of the British Army leaving Northern Ireland...
...part of a sustained dissident campaign of civic disruption or simply acts of sporadic, copycat violence. Either way, the individuals behind this new threat to Northern Ireland's increasingly fragile peace have clearly studied their history books. A similar campaign of low-level, civic disruption by the Provisional IRA in the late 1960s and 1970s led to the mass deployment of British troops on Northern Irish streets and triggered one of the bloodiest periods in the 30-year sectarian conflict known as the Troubles. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
...fact, according to some commentators, ideology has little to do with it. "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 Antrim last month were supplied by Dublin drug gangs. "[The dissidents] are cynically manipulating latent republican feeling to cover their own criminal activities and to sustain them...
...speculators are back - but they've changed; he has investors up North who are buying houses sight unseen, for cash. (The conditions? No mold, no Chinese drywall.) And then there are the newly pissed off and liberated: the guy in his 40s who's tired of watching his IRA shrivel, who calls and says, "I'm coming down," who wants six houses at $50,000 each, nice flat homes that he can rent to people who are sick of shoveling snow or climbing stairs. That's less than the land used to sell...
...human body without nourishment. McQueen documents the constant attention given to Sands by the hospital doctors as he refuses all food and gradually surrenders his body. McQueen, much like Sands, has a single and purposeful intention from which he never strays. Refusing to either condemn or glorify the IRA, the director focuses solely on the physicality of the prisoners’ grim undertaking. In this approach, “Hunger” bravely reveals the visceral underbelly of a well-known event in English and Irish history. McQueen illustrates with profound artistry the eerie quiet of a hunger strike...