Guns away?
Some IRA members are giving up. But not all
COULD the self-described “Real” IRA—a splinter group from the main outfit—be disintegrating? A message from behind prison walls by a bunch of the faction's members last weekend denounced its leadership as corrupt and called for disbandment. But disappointment followed quickly, with a grenade attack on a police station and tiresome bomb hoaxes in Belfast. In both cases, police thought they spotted Real IRA trademarks.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Guns away?”
From the October 26th 2002 edition
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