Dissident Republican Groups

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 16 December 2009.

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Photo of Shaun Woodward Shaun Woodward The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 11:30, 16 December 2009

While the self-styled criminals remain a serious threat, their cowardly actions have been rejected by the majority of people in Northern Ireland. None the less, the Government are not complacent about the threat that those people continue to pose.

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Ken Kilfedder
Posted on 31 Dec 2009 1:39 pm (Report this annotation)

Self-styled criminals? Those who refer to themselves as criminals? That really wasn't the question. Dissident Republicans probably style themselves as freedom-fighters or similar, just like their non-dissident predecessors.