Fear of rising dissident threat after bombing

The booby-trap bomb in Co Fermanagh, near the Cavan border, led the PSNI to say dissident groups were showing an “increased capability”, which it describing as “extremely worrying”.

A second bomb attack on British security forces in little over three weeks has sparked fears of a growing threat from dissident republicans and an urgent call by senior Police Service of Northern Ireland officers for “collective” political action.

The booby-trap bomb in Co Fermanagh, near the Cavan border, led the Police Federation for Northern Ireland to say dissident groups were showing an “increased capability”, which it describing as “extremely worrying”.