• The independent Assessment on Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland was announced by the United Kingdom government in September 2015 in response to the...
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    loyalist and Irish republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. Attacks can range from a warning or expulsion from Northern Ireland, backed up by...
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    as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring...
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    The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA, Irish: Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group formed on 8 December...
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  • April 2006. "Assessment on paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland". Northern Ireland Office. 20 October 2015. Archived from the original on 28 January...
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  • whether parties linked to paramilitaries should be included in talks, and the rate of "normalisation" in Northern Ireland. Loyalist bombings and shootings...
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    IRA Army Council (category Provisional Irish Republican Army)
    organisations. On 20 October 2015, the Assessment on Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on the...
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    Carlile was an independent reviewer on the 2015 Assessment on Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland. He was vocal in his opposition to the UK coalition...
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  • Arm na Poblachta (category Paramilitary organisations based in Northern Ireland)
    (meaning in English "Army of the Republic") is the name of a small, dissident, Irish-republican paramilitary group believed to have been founded in 2017....
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  • republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups. Members of the unit were recruited from regular Army battalions and trained in an eight-week course by the...
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    crime within Northern Ireland. It is the successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) after it was reformed and renamed in 2001 on the recommendation...
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    between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland – a sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United...
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    Ulster Defence Association (category Organised crime groups in Northern Ireland)
    Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed in September 1971 as an umbrella group for various loyalist groups and undertook an...
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    Loyalist Volunteer Force (category Proscribed paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland)
    Volunteer Force (LVF) was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed by Billy Wright in 1996 when he and his unit split from the...
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    Ulster Resistance (category Paramilitary organisations based in Northern Ireland)
    loyalist paramilitary movement established by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland in November 1986 in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement...
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    The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation who waged a guerrilla campaign...
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  • In order to finance their armed campaigns during the Troubles (1969–1998), both Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries engaged in numerous...
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  • chronology of activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary group in the 21st century. 16 March 2000: an IRA engineer...
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    involving many paramilitaries and the British Army in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles". A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, known as the Good...
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    Ulster Special Constabulary (category 1970 disestablishments in Northern Ireland)
    submit a report on the disturbances in Northern Ireland. He found some evidence of cross-membership of the USC and loyalist paramilitary organisations....
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  • Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an armed paramilitary campaign primarily in Northern Ireland and England, aimed at ending British rule in Northern...
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    dissident Irish republican campaign began at the end of the Troubles, a 30-year political conflict in Northern Ireland. Since the Provisional Irish Republican...
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  • Murder of Jean McConville (category Paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland)
    providing information on paramilitary organisations to the security forces. Other Irish republican and loyalist paramilitaries also carried out such killings...
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    in Northern Ireland against armed attack or sabotage" but unlike troops from Great Britain they were never used for "crowd control or riot duties in cities"...
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  • massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen...
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    reunited with the rest of Ireland. Since the signing of the "Good Friday Agreement" in 1998, most of the paramilitary groups involved in the Troubles have ceased...
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    Stephen Nolan (category Radio personalities from Northern Ireland)
    Council, an umbrella group which issues statements on behalf of some loyalist paramilitary groups. The Irish Times reported that in April 2023 a "heated"...
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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast...
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    On 20 December 2004, £26.5 million in cash was stolen from the headquarters of Northern Bank on Donegall Square West in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Having...
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    Naomi Long (category Women mayors of places in Northern Ireland)
    Johnston; born 13 December 1971) is a Northern Irish politician who has served as Minister of Justice in the Northern Ireland Executive since February 2024,...
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