Northern Ireland Far Left Warns Biden as Police Say Attack ‘Highly Likely’ – By Tom O’Connor (Newsweek) / Apr 10 2023
Dissident republicans in Northern Ireland have issued a warning to U.S. President Joe Biden as his visit to the U.K.-controlled territory comes amid heightened security concerns stemming from decades-long sectarian unrest.
Biden’s first visit to Northern Ireland and the neighboring Republic of Ireland since taking office in 2021 coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. That truce put an end to much of the violence associated with a period known as “the Troubles,” waged largely between majority-Protestant loyalists aligned with the United Kingdom and majority-Catholic republicans seeking unification with Ireland.
Tensions linger a quarter of a century later, however, and dissident republicans have set fire to police vehicles in recent days to mark both the signing of the Good Friday Agreement as well as the 1916 Easter Rising during which Irish rebels launched an insurrection against ruling British forces. Much of the activity today has been tied to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the traditional vanguard of Irish republicanism that has splintered into several groups, among the most active of which is an organization widely referred to as the New IRA.
