All sides will need to work together to tackle paramilitary violence

WE thought they had gone away but the latest activity by dissident republicans calling themselves the IRA suggests that either they haven’t or that a new generation of murderers has taken up where the Provos left off.

Two PSNI officers in West Belfast were the target last Thursday night of the gang who used an AK47 assault rifle to shoot at their police car. Their lives were saved by bullet- proof glass.

It has now emerged that a BMW used by the gang to escape had been stolen 11 weeks ago in Co Meath and carried false Cork registration plates.