Topic: Irish Republican Army
A ruthless IRA splinter group, the Irish National Liberation Army, declared Monday it had fully disarmed but offered no regrets for committing some of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland conflict. "We make no apology for our part in the conflict," said INLA spokesman ...
The Irish National Liberation Army, a ruthless IRA splinter group responsible for some of Northern Ireland's most notorious killings, said Saturday it has surrendered its weapons just days before an Anglo-Irish disarmament deadline is due to expire. Two representatives of the outlawed organization told The ...
The retrial began Tuesday of an Irish Republican Army veteran who was the only person convicted of involvement in the 1998 car-bomb attack on Omagh, the deadliest terror strike throughout the four-decade conflict in Northern Ireland. Colm Murphy originally received a 14-year prison sentence in ...
BELFAST (Reuters) - A major paramilitary group in Northern Ireland has scrapped all its weapons in front of independent monitors, completing the disarming of the main militant groups but still leaving dangerous dissidents active. The Ulster Defense Association (UDA), a 'loyalist' group which wants Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, declared last June that its armed struggle was ...
