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.

It’s the Twelfth of July. There’s more than marching to the days-long Protestant celebration of a military victory 336 years ago in the north of Ireland. Bonfires are also a big part of the festivities. Even when they feature effigies of refugees and a model of a mosque.

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