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The real IRA

The real IRA. By Laura and Steph. When and How it began?. The Real IRA (RIRA) was formed in 1997 by conservatives who opposed the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein, after they accepted the Good Friday Agreement which was supposed to end hostilities.

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The real IRA

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  1. The real IRA By Laura and Steph

  2. When and How it began? • The Real IRA (RIRA) was formed in 1997 by conservatives who opposed the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein, • after they accepted the Good Friday Agreement which was supposed to end hostilities. • Michael McKevitt, an Irish Republican, founded the group. • He was in charge of the provisional IRA’s armoury before he split over the IRA’s new peace policy. • The Real IRA wanted to stop the peace process and further the reunification movement by continuing terrorist activities aimed at the British. • The Real IRA is estimated to have 100-200 active members.

  3. Bombings/Attacks: • The RIRA was responsible for the Omagh bombing on 15th August 1998. • They set off a 500 pound car bomb, in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh in which 29 civilians died. • The Real IRA later apologised for the bombing saying it had intended only to hit commercial targets. • It later called a ceasefire to all military operations. • The group resumed terrorist operations early in 2000.

  4. military operations. The group resumed terrorist operations early in 2000. • The last fatal attack carried out by the Real IRA was in August 2002, when a construction worker was killed at a British Army Base in London. • The most recent attack by the Real IRA in November 2007, two policemen in Northern I • relandwere wounded in two armed attacks. • McKevittwas arrested in March 2001 by Irish authorities, • convicted in August 2003, and is currently serving • twenty-year sentence in an Irish jail.

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