What is the New IRA? How many members in the ranks? Do they pose a serious threat to a fragile peace in the North of Ireland? There are two recent developments worth noting: A New IRA operation to export Semtex into the North was stopped and a video was posted by the same group warning migrants to leave NI or they’d be forced out.

Price Service Norther Ireland has been unable to achieve parity in the numbers of Protestant and Catholic police officers.