A new dissident IRA group has expelled scores of members in a crackdown on informers.
The Sunday Times reports that the umbrella group for Republican terrorists is taking stern action.
The paper’s crime correspondent John Mooney claims that the new IRA group has stood down certain active-service units as part of a purge against suspected informers.
He says that command of the organisation has been transferred to republican hard-liners based in Northern Ireland ahead of a new reign of terror.
The new grouping has brought together the Real IRA, Republican Action Against Drugs, and former members of the Provisional IRA.
The report says that more than 100 key members have been expelled in recent weeks in a purge against those it suspects of secretly working as informers.
Dissidents involved in organised crime and those who were involved in failed terrorist organisations have been dismissed.
The paper also says that former associates of dissident leader Alan Ryan, who was shot dead close to his home in Dublin in September, have also been stood down.
The paper says that the new terrorist group has banned members from using mobile phones or discussing IRA business while indoors or travelling in cars.
One source told the Sunday Times: “They have learnt from their mistakes made in allowing telephone calls to be intercepted or cars to be bugged.
“They are communicating without speaking over a phone. They are using every conceivable method to make contact without speaking directly to one another.”
The paper also says that the group now represents the biggest threat to police, prison officers and soldiers based in Northern Ireland.
They believe this new IRA was responsible for the murder of prison officer David Black in Antrim earlier this month.
The source added: “Black’s murder has been a morale booster for terrorists. They managed to target a prison officer without being detected, they managed to follow him home, shoot him dead as he drove to work and get away with it. They are feeling confident.”
Terry Spence, chairman of the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, told the paper that the British and Irish governments urgently need to take decisive action to thwart the group.
He said: “This new IRA group has consolidated its position. They have access to explosives and very sophisticated weapons. It is quite obvious that the degree of decommissioning of IRA weapons was never 100%, and the evidence that there is still Semtex available in some quantity is extremely disconcerting.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Belphagor | Dec 01, 2012, 08:42 PM EST
very interesting that Duffy hasn't been kicked out yet, 'the best placed asset we have had in years' as one PSNI officer put it. These criminals have no mandate, they still represent drug dealing, prostitution and racketeering from the very community they are supposed to represent. Who has ever heard of an Army with no tanks, no helicopters, long range bombers etc, ffs give it up lads you are a joke.
DanOLoingsigh | Nov 27, 2012, 08:10 PM EST
Those who say 'informers' should be executed need to remember that Capital punishment is banned across the European Union…and extra-judicial capital punishment is banned in all civilised countries…let’s keep it that way, and keep the barbarians as far away from Ireland as possible.
Gordan Duggan | Nov 27, 2012, 06:14 PM EST
Could anyone tell us what AloisMartin is always rabbiting on about? Would Alois tell us himself (in plain English please). As for the "REAL IRA" with their recent "Benefit" in the Submarine Bar in Dublin with their gangster molls, flashy jewellery and cars, loud republican songs and endless drinking and boasting, well the sooner they are got rid of the better. They are a security threat to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
seamus60 | Nov 27, 2012, 06:09 PM EST
Informers should be executed as with snitch`s should end up in ditch`s.
patto69 | Nov 27, 2012, 11:09 AM EST
"A new dissident IRA group has expelled scores of members in a crackdown on informers." The two that were left went on home.
Strongbow | Nov 26, 2012, 09:41 PM EST
Aha, "Night of the long knives," rebublican remnant style. Hopefully the expelled will get some remedial republican re-education and return to being good little freedom fighters like they are.
curtisjohnson | Nov 26, 2012, 08:26 PM EST
The RUC/PSNI have every incentive to fabricate and hype this as much as possible so they are given more resources and free reign to abuse the indigenous population. The supremacist community and the tools of their oppression, the RUC/PSNI in particular, remain the primary obstacle to peace as they have always been.
aloistmartin | Nov 26, 2012, 06:23 PM EST
Patriot, Ideologist, Revolutionary, Republican; Or Bourgeois Proletarian Punk ? Come`n Boy`s, its time to, Lay It On The Line !
seamus60 | Nov 26, 2012, 05:24 PM EST
Philo. From acorns grow ? You speak with the same tongue unionists used against the provos.
Silling | Nov 26, 2012, 01:58 PM EST
As long as the Irish are intoxicated by catholicism, there will always be those opposed to violence, yet we all know that it is the only means of achieving anything. Hiroshima proved that and to quote Yeats, " Peace comes dropping slow ".
pilib04 | Nov 26, 2012, 11:30 AM EST
Is it really necessary to give this splinter group any publicity at all. Good or bad, it is what they crave. Does Patrick Counihan even understand what a splinter is?