Could There Be A Return To Terror In Ireland?

[Kromovaracun]

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/dissident-bomb-fuels-fear-of-return-to-terror-after-brexit-37731387.html

A bomb set off in Derry last night has raised fears that a hard Brexit could see an increase in dissident terror. The New IRA is believed to be responsible.

Garda and PSNI have both expressed concern that in the event of a hard border after Brexit, there could be a new surge of violence from dissidents:

//Several key figures in the dissident groups are due for release from prison in the coming months and they are expected to influence a re-organisation as they focus on the fall-out from Brexit.

A hard Border could potentially open up opportunities for them to recruit members and fundraise through smuggling and other criminal activities.

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The New IRA, formed in 2012, poses the biggest threat from dissident republicans since the Provisional IRA, according to an assessment by the head of the Garda intelligence and security section, Assistant Commissioner Michael O'Sullivan. That assessment is shared by the PSNI, which is also seriously concerned about the impact of a hard Brexit.//

[ichkeria]

Before 1973 there was a customs border between the two parts or Ireland and after one part leaves the EU there will have to be again. Wading through the claptrap, that’s all you need to know ...

[Khandro]

Better still, - a united Ireland, problem solved.

[Old_Geezer]

Some seem to PTSL simply because it's been pointed out their point wasn't valid.

No one is expecting masses of immigrants flooding across the Irish border. It's been discussed many times here. Were there to be such a flood post Brexit we'd expect to see the same flow now; and we don't.

Of course many folk wanted immigration control as one of the benefits of Brexit, but most will realise that project fear projections of an Irish border immigrant flood is so unlikely as to neither affect their decision to vote to leave, nor their understanding that the immigration level due to an open Irish border will be so minimal that it can be dismissed.

[Old_Geezer]

It's not better to show that one is willing to sacrifice one part of the Union in order to wash one's hands of an issue. Each country in the Union is entitled to the same consideration. It's inequalities that cause dissatisfaction rather than equalities that and the risk of greed if some sections vote in partisan representatives only interested in their country getting more than the others.

[Khandro]

'Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the question.' and so it continues

The Irish Free State in 1922 and its successor, Eire, in 1937 were the first new nations to emerge from the British Empire. The fatal misjudgement was to keep two-thirds of the counties of the province of Ulster, those with a Protestant majority, out of the Irish Free State, retaining them as an awkward appendage of the UK.

[Old_Geezer]

In retrospect, maybe, it's debatable what the right thing to do is. Understandable one would want to fight for the right of the citizens who wished to remain in the UK to do so, and let those wanting to go, go. Wouldn't have avoided troubles if they all went as one though. And, of course, we need to do the right thing from the position we find ourselves, rather than where we'd like to be.