Communities in the North in 'perpetual fear' of paramilitaries

The scene last month on Abbott Drive in Newtownards near Belfast, after a bus was hijacked and set alight in an attack politicians have linked to loyalist opposition to Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol. 

The threat of paramilitarism in Northern Ireland remains a “clear and present danger”, according to the fourth report of the Independent Reporting Commission, which has urged for a formal process to disband paramilitary groups.

Paramilitaries active in certain communities are also keeping people living in “perpetual fear”, it said.