Sinn Féin to hold talks with dissident group

Sinn Féin is to hold talks with the political representatives of the Real IRA dissident republican paramilitary group, it was confirmed today.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement is seen as being the political wing of the Real IRA grouping which is responsible for a string of attacks including the infamous Omagh bombing of 1998, plus this week’s car bomb attack on a Derry police station.