![]() ![]() It says it is a standalone political organisation, but it is viewed as reflecting the views of the New IRA, a connection it did little deny with the paramilitary trappings on view in O’Connell Street in Dublin on Saturday. ![]() ![]() Since the killing of Lyra McKee, Saoradh has come into public focus in a way it did not do so before, particularly in the wake of Easter commemoration marches in Cork and Dublin. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times Members of Republican Sinn Féin stand on Dublin’s O’Connell Street during their Easter Rising commemoration on Monday. Security sources say that it has a store of the high explosive Semtex that they believe was “siphoned off” from old Provisional IRA stock. The New IRA also said it was responsible for sending parcel bombs to London and Glasgow last month. In January it carried out a car bomb attack outside the courthouse in Derry. Given the danger that attack posed to the wider community, just like as happened in the Creggan, PSNI chief constable George Hamilton called it "crazy" and "completely reckless". In January 2017 it wounded a police officer aged in his 20s when it fired up to 10 shots from an automatic weapon at a filling station on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast. A number of police officers have been forced to move home as a result of such incidents. It has also targeted many more PSNI officers with gun and attempted under-car booby trap bomb attacks. In advance of the formation of the New IRA some of its members are believed to have been involved in the 2011 murder of PSNI officer Ronan Kerr in Omagh, and two years earlier in Antrim in the murders of British soldiers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey. ![]() He bled to death after one of the shots severed an artery. In 2016 taxi driver Michael McGibbon (33) died after he was shot three times in the leg in such an incident in Ardoyne, north Belfast. ![]()
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