"Tolan Blundell" <tolan@citipages.net> writes:
The bombing in Omagh was attributed to the 'Real IRA' a breakaway group who I believe are generally considered to be more hard line than IRA.
As far as I understand it they are not the same organisation.
What you mean by the IRA is probably the Provisional IRA. The Official IRA (Marxist and known as the "stickies") itself has been defunct since the early 1970s and PIRA was formed by hardliners leaving OIRA. The Real IRA has been formed by hardliners leaving PIRA. If history repeats itself then most people will probably end up refering to RIRA as IRA anyway, since the distinction between these organisations will probably be of little interest to the family of someone killed. (There are another republician terrorist groups such as the INLA as well) -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk i never think of the future. it comes soon enough. --albert einstein