The New IRA faction are a disparate bunch of thugs led by hard-core dissidents hell-bent on destroying the peace process.
They believe, like the rest of their Republican fantasists, that they have a right to act outside of the legitimising bounds of a mandate from the people of this island.
The group, numbering up to 200-strong, is believed to be led by a well known republican who has been arrested and tried for various terror offences.
As with past groups, such as the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA, their recruitment method is to target vulnerable young criminals.
Leaders of those groups have been spotted in the company of these youths in cafes and other locations, engaged in an effort to radicalise them to the cause.
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Sources have said the general Derry area, along with East Tyrone and Craigavon, near Portadown, are their powerbases.
They have been rebuilding for a number of years and gardai from the Special Detective Unit and Emergency Response Unit have launched searches in the Mourne Mountains on the Republic side.
The PSNI have carried out similar operations.
There they found a massive haul of weapons and explosives in bunkers all ready for use in their new campaign.
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The recent bombing in Derry of a court house was the beginning of a strategy to begin, again, the destruction of life and property on this island and abroad.
The posting of packages to addresses in London and Glasgow was yet another throw back to the most chaotic efforts of the Provos.
This group are like a psychotic nostalgia for the mayhem brought to its senses by the Good Friday Agreement.
The failure of all these groups has always been their inability to protect themselves from informants - security forces North and South are working to smash them.
They have targeted youths from disadvantaged areas to do their bidding - young criminals accustomed to the anti-social behaviour and intimidation of innocent people.
The gun used to kill Lyra McKee was brought to the scene on the Creggan estate in the waistband of a tracksuit-wearing thug.
The families of those young men, now involved in the New IRA cause, must take on the mantle to pull us all back from the brink of anarchy.
