Continuity IRA: "We are regrouping - more attacks are coming"

A CIRA (Continuity Irish Republican Army) spokesperson told Swedish SVT Nyheter (News) that the recent attacks will continue. The group has been responsible of recent attacks. On July 26, police were called after a bomb was found. A second bomb on August 19 exploded at the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, police soon identified the Continuity IRA (CIRA) as responsible.


"The attacks were a response to the presence of British forces in the country and those attacks will continue. The Brexit has a certain impact, but it doesn't matter what the UK does". When asked by Swedish journalist: "How does CIRA justify its attacks when few in the country support it?
"We do not need to justify our actions to anyone," the spokesman told SVT.  "We think that is the right way."

 The CIRA emerged in 1986 as a branch of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), paramilitary who fought for a united Ireland independently from the British through guerrilla war and terrorist attacks. The PIRA officially disarmed after the 1998 UK-Ireland peace treaty, but the CIRA  opposed it.