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Northern Irish police arrest man over suspected New IRA car bombing
Tue, Apr 28, 2026 0 Comments Audio By Carbonatix BELFAST, April 28 (Reuters) – Northern Irish police arrested a man on Tuesday and stepped up patrols after the militant group New IRA claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a Belfast police station and warned it would target officers at their homes. The New IRA is one of a small number of active militant groups opposed to a 1998 peace deal that largely ended sectarian violence in the region. It has been behind many of the attacks on police, including a similar attempted car bombing at a police station outside Belfast last month. The targeting of police officers at their homes would be an escalation of those attacks. The last officer to be killed in Northern Ireland, Constable Ronan Kerr, died when a bomb exploded under his car outside his home 15 years ago. The dissident group rejects the political compromises at the heart of the Good Friday Agreement that Northern Ireland will remain part of the United Kingdom unless a majority of the region votes by referendum to unite with Ireland. Detectives investigating the attack on Dunmurry police station at the weekend arrested a 66-year-old man under terrorism laws, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said. The New IRA claimed responsibility for hijacking a delivery vehicle and forcing the driver to take it to the police station on Saturday, the Irish News quoted the nationalist militant group as saying on Tuesday. The organisation said in a statement, which the Irish News said it received and included a codeword to confirm its veracity, it had intended to kill police coming out of the station after the driver was told to shout that there was a bomb in the car as they left. “It is our intention, if they keep harassing the republican people, to bomb them (police officers) in their own houses, with no warning,” the statement added. The New IRA, a far smaller organisation than the Irish Republican Army, which disarmed after the peace accord, typically claims responsibility for any attacks in coded statements to local newspapers. Senior police officials announced a high-visibility policing operation across Northern Ireland in response to what they described as an ongoing dissident threat. Assistant Chief Constable Davy Beck said the latest attack had demonstrated a clear intent to disrupt communities and potentially injure or kill police officers and staff. (Reporting by Amanda Ferguson, Padraic Halpin in Belfast, and Sam Tabahriti in London;Editing by Al...
Northern Ireland makes arrest linked to suspected New IRA car bombing ...
The nationalist group has been escalating threats, nearly 30 years after a peace deal largely ended sectarian violence in the region.Northern Irish police have made an arrest after the nationalist group New IRA claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a Belfast police station.The Police Service of Northern Ireland on Tuesday said a 66-year-old man was arrested under the United Kingdom’s Terrorism Act and searches were ongoing in both east and west of Belfast. Sectarian pressures have been building recently in the UK-controlled territory, 28 years after political agreement put an end to decades of violence.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Ireland’s Micheal Martin and Trump in awkward St Patrick’s Day exchangelist 2 of 3Palestine aIly Ireland under fire for allowing weapons transfers to Israellist 3 of 3British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine studentsend of listNo one was injured in the blast on Saturday, which occurred after a delivery vehicle was hijacked and the driver forced to drive to Dunmurry police station on Saturday.The New IRA declared on Tuesday that it had intended to kill police coming out of the station, according to local outlet Irish News, and warned that it planned to target officers at their homes with bombs.The New IRA typically claims responsibility for attacks in coded statements to local newspapers.Assistant Chief Constable Davy Beck said that the latest attack demonstrated a clear intent to disrupt communities and potentially injure or kill police officers and staff, according to the Reuters news agency.The New IRA is one of a small number of active armed groups that oppose a three-decade-old peace deal that largely ended sectarian violence in the northern part of the island.The dissident group rejects the political compromises at the heart of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that stipulates Northern Ireland will remain part of the United Kingdom unless a majority votes by referendum to unite with the Republic of Ireland.The group has been behind a mounting series of attacks on police, including a similar attempted car bombing at a police station outside Belfast last month.The targeting of police officers at their homes would be an escalation. The last officer to be killed in Northern Ireland, Constable Ronan Kerr, died when a bomb exploded under his car outside his home 15 years ago.
Car bomb explodes outside Belfast police station in suspected 'New IRA ...
A car bomb has exploded outside a Belfast police station in a suspected "New IRA" attack. The explosion occurred in Dunmurry, southwest of Belfast, outside a police station late on Saturday night, with reports of a loud band at around 11.30pm.
New IRA suspected in car bomb blast outside Northern Ireland police station
An Irish Republican group New IRA could be behind an overnight car bomb attack outside a police station near Belfast late on Saturday, authorities said. According to the Police Service of Northern ...
