Dissidents

The Dissidents have gained a much needed boost to their ego with the organised rioting in the north over recent days and weeks. Young unemployed and vulnerable people are being eagerly recruited to the ranks of the dissidents. Recent success by the security forces north and south weakened the dissident capacity and it is fair to say that most dissident activity will remain within ghettoised working class areas north and south. However, the dissidents continue to make vast sums of money from smuggling and other forms of criminality and it is in their interest to keep the security services and customs off the back roads of Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh and Derry, so we can expect more covert bombs, mortar attacks and shooting incidents in these areas.




The dissidents are feverishly trying to get their hands on consignments of guns and explosives from foreign countries; the dissident links with major crime gangs in Dublin, Cork and Limerick is providing some success with the dissidents getting access to semi-automatic weapons. However, commercial explosives are not easily acquired and so the dissidents are heavily dependent on home made explosive devices. The dissidents are determined to cause an explosion in England that determination has been spurned on by the now declared visit to Ireland of Queen Elizabeth of England. The dissidents have been using this summer to get ‘white lilies’ into position in England, most are young and vulnerable and will end up serving long sentences for the crimes of much older and seasoned criminals.



Here at home the dissident ranks have been filled with some experienced Provisional IRA players; this is clear from recent operations and engineering developments. The dissidents have built up a bed rock of support in arrears of north Monaghan, north Louth and Donegal. This support is useful as seen in recent bomb attacks, in Aughnacloy the dissidents were able to travel to Augnacloy, plant a 300lb bomb and within two minutes were burning out their car in Carrickroe in north Monaghan, none of this can happen without support. People remain in ignorance of the role played by the dissident leaders during the negotiations between the British and Sinn Fein/IRA leadership; it is this ignorance that is keeping the dissidents in business.



There is no doubt that the dissidents are not being viewed as a significant threat, the majority of their activity will continue to be criminality, that criminality will be punctuated by self serving attacks on the security forces, these attacks are a smoke screen to hide the true nature of the criminals who fill the ranks of the Real IRA and Continuity IRA. It is tragic that another generation of young working class Catholics have been abandoned to the criminal hoard who would dare call themselves republicans, but in all honesty working class Catholics were never of much concern to the political elites of these Islands. While the PIRA were being excused by Fianna Fail for their daily murders and mutilations of Catholic children following the 1994 cease-fire, that same Fianna Fail government was robbing our country blind, its all about smoke and mirrors, criminals defending the wrongs of other criminals.