RIRA


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Synonyms for RIRA

a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire

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It said: "The recent knife attack on a well-known republican has sparked outrage among the newly-reformed RIRA in Dublin.
Bell said both of the animals she sheared for the materials Rira and Paddock were working with had been killed by cougars, something that has greatly damaged her business, Pacific Meadows Alpacas.
After today's endorsement the RIRA will be forwarded to presentation, consideration and approval of the region's Prime Ministers at the occasions of the upcoming WB6 Summits in Sofia and London, taking place on 17 May 2018 and 10 July 2018, respectively.
They thought they were invincible with protection from RIRA in the North SOURCE on the gang members who are seeking isolation
They used to have the protection of the RIRA in Belfast but they have even washed their hands of them now.
The statement comes from the faction led by RIRA founder Michael McKevitt who has been talking about a ceasefire for some months.
The demonstrator is a close associate of a pal of slain RIRA member Alan Ryan.
It is no wonder that other former associates of slain RIRA boss Alan Ryan have now gone to ground fearing they might be next on the hit list after Declan Smith.
Our investigations found desperate RIRA leaders are recruiting schoolboys in a bid to build a terror empire.
The revelations make a mockery of the RIRA's claim to have instigated a ceasefire.
The journal was left behind by the RIRA hit squad who blasted him several times, leaving him to bleed to death.
A MAN who fled the country after being charged in connection with the murder of RIRA boss Alan Ryan has been arrested in the UK.
The businessman, a Protestant from the Newry area, later received a RIRA death threat and has now fled to England.
But security sources say McKevitt is also closely linked to the RIRA, an organisation who set out to massacre whole families - not unlike his own -in Omagh.