26.10.04
Belfast Telegraph
Renegade terror group planning raids
By Tom Brady
26 October 2004
A group of Dublin-based 'young guns' linked to the Continuity IRA is planning to embark on a series of armed robberies and other paramilitary fund raisers.
Senior Garda officers are concerned that the group could be built up into a new dissident republican force and are planning to crack down on the fledgling units.
Their emergence coincides with the sidelining of the former Continuity leadership in the South. These have been mainly drawn from the Limerick area and under their command the renegade organisation has been badly hit by garda infiltration and intelligence gathering.
Several members of the new group have already come to the attention of the Garda Special Branch, whose detectives have stepped up monitoring of their movements and have built up a dossier on their known haunts.
According to anti-terrorist officers, the power base within the CIRA has switched significantly again to the far side of the Border and is heavily influenced by a number of key figures operating in counties Fermanagh and Armagh.
Renegade terror group planning raids
By Tom Brady
26 October 2004
A group of Dublin-based 'young guns' linked to the Continuity IRA is planning to embark on a series of armed robberies and other paramilitary fund raisers.
Senior Garda officers are concerned that the group could be built up into a new dissident republican force and are planning to crack down on the fledgling units.
Their emergence coincides with the sidelining of the former Continuity leadership in the South. These have been mainly drawn from the Limerick area and under their command the renegade organisation has been badly hit by garda infiltration and intelligence gathering.
Several members of the new group have already come to the attention of the Garda Special Branch, whose detectives have stepped up monitoring of their movements and have built up a dossier on their known haunts.
According to anti-terrorist officers, the power base within the CIRA has switched significantly again to the far side of the Border and is heavily influenced by a number of key figures operating in counties Fermanagh and Armagh.
