This episode we're speaking to

This is popular front, a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky details of modern warfare with me Jake Hanrahan.

This episode we're speaking to Pauli Doyle.

He's a journalist and he's going to be speaking about the so-called new IRA,

a relatively new Irish Republican militant group operating in Northern Ireland.

This year already they've set off a large car bomb in Northern Ireland and most recently sent letter bombs across the UK one of which detonated burned up it wasn't a massive one

But we're gonna speak to poorly is gonna tell us why the new IRA and

Brexit specifically could pose a threat to relative peace in Northern Ireland.

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So Porti there's this new Irish Republican militant group, car bombs, letter bombs, I've done all sorts.

Who is the so-called new IRA?

The new IRA are, it would be the most kind of the most active dissident Republican group currently operating in Ireland

and it's an amalgam of a number of other dissident groups that kind of came before that

so that would include people

like Republican action against drugs and the real IRA who I suppose most famously were

responsible for the OMA bombing?

Yeah, and the new IRA's been pretty active recently, right?

The group were responsible, I mean, in addition to the kind of four packages that were

sent across Britain, they were also responsible for a car bomb attack outside a dairy courthouse back in January.

They've sent letter bombs to kind of various British targets over the years. So they would kind of see themselves as engaged in a military campaign with the kind of end goal being a 32 county

Socialist Irish Republic with no interference from Britain whatsoever.

Right, and I think it's probably a good idea to say no as well.

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