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I’m no expert on NI politics. Does anyone think the car bomb in Derry is related to Brexit? A warning maybe?

It does serve as a reminder that the good Friday agreement needs to be respected in my opinion.
 
Redstarrob said:
dissident republicans having been bombing and shooting for years, and now its because of brexit, absolute nonsense
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The point is that the dissidents opposed the GFA 'primarily' on the grounds that the 'Brits' could not be trusted to stand to the terms of the agreement. They were finally starting to completely fizzle out until this era of Tories who have consciously failed to the live up to their responsibilities, abetted by the coward Kenny, repeatedly disregarding the warnings of multiple branches of the government. Until now it appears that the Tory party let alone the brexiteers seem determined to shred the GFA at the first opportunity. What started out as a political bluff has now become an ideological standard hidden behind a pretense of opposing the backstop.
 
Redstarrob said:
dissident republicans having been bombing and shooting for years, and now its because of brexit, absolute nonsense
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Since the Tory Brexiteers started joining in with the Unionists and declaring the GFA the "Belfast Agreement" and minimizing the danger of the border issue they have pulled Brexit within the orbit of the politics of republicanism/loyalism, and thereby weaponised Brexit.
 
It was reminder as to what could happen when people who didn't believe in the peace agreement in the first place because they don't believe one side will ever live up to its end of the bargain, believe that they will soon be proven to have been correct all along. These dissidents will never miss an opportunity to crank up the pressure; the threat has always been there. Even the Chief Constable of the PSNI predicted it. No-one can say that they weren't warned. Thankfully no-one was injured and hopefully it was a one-off.
 
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Taifi gorm said:
The point is that the dissidents opposed the GFA 'primarily' on the grounds that the 'Brits' could not be trusted to stand to the terms of the agreement. They were finally starting to completely fizzle out until this era of Tories who have consciously failed to the live up to their responsibilities, abetted by the coward Kenny, repeatedly disregarding the warnings of multiple branches of the government. Until now it appears that the Tory party let alone the brexiteers seem determined to shred the GFA at the first opportunity. What started out as a political bluff has now become an ideological standard hidden behind a pretense of opposing the backstop.
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Thats rubbish, dissidents opposed the gfa because it did not deliver what republicans have wanted since 1922, a 32 county irish socialist republic
 
tim cahill said:
I’m no expert on NI politics. Does anyone think the car bomb in Derry is related to Brexit? A warning maybe?

It does serve as a reminder that the good Friday agreement needs to be respected in my opinion.
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No.

These muppets surface occasionally to carry out these acts of token terrorism.....they did so before Brexit even existed, they will do so even if Brexit was binned in the morning.

I suspect this bomb was more symbolic than owt else.....it was exploded almost on the day of the centenary of what the Republic calls the “War of Independence”, when Dan Breen and Sean Treacey et al bushwhacked and killed two coppers in a place called Soloheadbeg in Tipp thus launching the Troubles in the early post WW1 years which eventually resulted in Partition, a Civil War in the South, isolation for the Catholics in the North and which still resonates today in the Brexit stalemate.... :)

(though to be fair, I may be crediting the culprits with too much grasp of Irish history here.....they might not have even ever heard of Soloheadbeg :()
 
Khalekan said:
No.

These muppets surface occasionally to carry out these acts of token terrorism.....they did so before Brexit even existed, they will do so even if Brexit was binned in the morning.

I suspect this bomb was more symbolic than owt else.....it was exploded almost on the day of the centenary of what the Republic calls the “War of Independence”, when Dan Breen and Sean Treacey et al bushwhacked and killed two coppers in a place called Soloheadbeg in Tipp thus launching the Troubles in the early post WW1 years which eventually resulted in Partition, a Civil War in the South, isolation for the Catholics in the North and which still resonates today in the Brexit stalemate.... :)

(though to be fair, I may be crediting the culprits with too much grasp of Irish history here.....they might not have even ever heard of Soloheadbeg :()
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Interesting read this Khal
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0119/1024278-soloheadbeg/
 
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