# Real IRA

This year

2023

# Colm Murphy

Colm Murphy, who was found liable for the Omagh bombing, has died in Co Louth

A death notice said Colm Murphy had died in hospital in Drogheda.

30.0k

Apr 18th 2023, 8:05 PM

Voices

Local MLA: 'There's a black cloud over Omagh today - one we'd hoped had gone forever'

The SDLP’s Daniel McCrossan says the people of Omagh are shocked that such violence has once again visited them.

10.1k

Feb 23rd 2023, 10:00 PM

# drugs tax

Cork dissident republican group fundraising through extortion racket on organised crime

The Real IRA, The Journal has learned, has established an extortion racket to force criminals to pay for protection.

33.3k

Jan 9th 2023, 12:05 AM

All time

# State Papers

Real IRA not ‘overly active’, Ahern told Blair two weeks before Omagh bomb

The bombing was the single greatest loss of life of the Troubles.

18.1k

Dec 30th 2021, 10:36 AM

# Omagh Bombing

Former Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt dies

McKevitt was one of four men found liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing.

66.4k

Jan 2nd 2021, 5:57 PM

# Seamus McGrane

Real IRA leader dies after taking ill in Portlaoise Prison

McGrane plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles in 2015.

36.7k

May 25th 2019, 6:11 PM

# hard brexit

Former Real IRA commander: Even cameras on masts would be seen as 'spy posts' in border regions

John Connolly, the group’s leader in prison in the 2000s, says things would change dramatically in the event of a hard border.

59.5k

Feb 18th 2019, 12:05 AM

# Troubles

Almost two-thirds of people 'fearful of a return to sectarian violence in Ireland after Brexit'

There have been a number of security alerts in Derry in recent days.

12.1k

Jan 22nd 2019, 10:50 AM

# Blackpool

Two men, aged 24 and 32, charged in connection with Aidan O’Driscoll murder

Aidan O’Driscoll, a former Real IRA chief, was killed in December 2016.

21.6k

Oct 8th 2018, 10:14 AM

# The Troubles

'Those scars will never go away': Special ceremony to mark 20th anniversary of Omagh bombing

The 1998 bombing was the single worst atrocity of the Troubles.

6.0k

Aug 15th 2018, 7:18 AM

# Seamus McGrane

After bugging his pub conversations, gardaí found these explosives in Real IRA leader's house

Seamus McGrane was earlier sentenced to 11-and-a-half years for plotting an attack during Prince Charles’ State visit two years ago.

21.7k

Dec 7th 2017, 6:00 PM

# Courts

IRA member becomes only the second person ever convicted of directing terrorism in Ireland

Two men discussed an operation involving explosives in the run-up to the State visit of Prince Charles two years ago.

22.5k

Oct 31st 2017, 1:37 PM

# aidan o'driscoll

Man (40s) released by gardaí in investigation of Real IRA boss murder

Aidan O’Driscoll was shot on Old Commons Road, Co Cork last December.

25.0k

Apr 12th 2017, 7:30 PM

# aidan o'driscoll

Five arrests made in murder investigation of former Real IRA boss

The 37-year-old was fatally shot on Old Commons Road, Co Cork last December.

12.5k

Apr 5th 2017, 10:30 AM

# Óglaigh na hÉireann

Dublin man jailed for four years for being a member of the IRA

His number plate was found in the debris of a car bomb in Newry.

20.0k

Jan 16th 2017, 12:49 PM

# dashcam appeal

Gardaí investigating RIRA murder appeal to public for potential 'dashcam footage' evidence

Aidan O’Driscoll was murdered last Thursday.

12.8k

Dec 12th 2016, 12:18 PM

# Funeral

Murdered Vincent Ryan was a devoted new dad who died "suddenly and violently"

He was shot dead last week.

50.8k

Mar 8th 2016, 11:58 AM

# gangland violence

Vincent Ryan's family: He was a 'staunch and honourable republican' but not active in the IRA

They have called for ‘an end to senseless violence’.

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Mar 5th 2016, 8:09 PM

# rocket science

This homemade rocket found in Wexford has no aiming system and "could have done serious damage"

“There’s no aiming. It’s point, press and hope.”

21.3k

Jan 7th 2016, 6:01 AM

# Courts

Man sentenced to life in prison for murder of gangland boss Eamon Kelly

Sean Connolly was sentenced at the Special Criminal Court today.

13.5k

May 1st 2015, 12:51 PM

# Special Branch

Intelligence on Real IRA Omagh bomb was 'withheld from police'

But the information could not have prevented the attack according to a new report.

8.4k

Oct 30th 2014, 8:12 AM

# Commission of Investigation

Fatal shooting of Real IRA member by gardaí to be investigated

Mac Lochlainn was shot dead by gardaí in May 1998.

15.4k

Jul 16th 2014, 2:47 PM

# Michael Campbell

The Irishman accused of Real IRA gun-running in Lithuania is to face a retrial

Michael Campbell was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison but his conviction was overturned.

17.6k

Jun 26th 2014, 10:42 PM

# Omagh Bombing

Omagh bombing accused to appear in court today

The man will appear in Dungannon Magistrates Court this morning.

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Apr 11th 2014, 7:23 AM

# Tragedy

Man arrested in connection with Omagh bombing remains in custody

Twenty nine people were killed and 220 were injured in the bombing.

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Apr 8th 2014, 11:57 AM

# The Troubles

Family of murdered spy Denis Donaldson accuse gardaí of delaying death inquest

Donaldson worked for Sinn Féin in the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont before being outed as an MI5 agent in 2005 and later shot dead.

11.6k

Mar 27th 2014, 4:20 PM

# Kieran Doherty

Detectives appeal for 'information, not speculation' over Real IRA killing

Former republican prisoner Kieran Doherty was shot and left on the outskirts of Derry four years ago. The Real IRA claimed responsibility.

8.9k

Feb 24th 2014, 8:14 AM

# IRA

There are 62 republican prisoners being held at present in Irish prisons

The average person is in custody in Portlaoise Prison for over 8 months.

14.4k

Feb 9th 2014, 9:00 AM

# Real IRA

Marian Price given 12 month suspended sentence

She admitted to purchasing a mobile phone used to claim responsibility for the deaths of two soldiers shot at a barracks in Antrim in 2009.

13.3k

Jan 7th 2014, 11:35 AM

# Lithuania

Irishman Michael Campbell released after Real IRA arms conviction overturned

The Lithuanian appeals court cited Britain and Ireland’s refusal to cooperate with prosecutors as a reason for the lack of evidence in linking Campbell with the Real IRA.

11.6k

Oct 2nd 2013, 6:38 PM

# Arrests

Two men arrested in dissident republican investigation

Two guns found at the scene are undergoing analysis.

7.5k

Sep 15th 2013, 7:46 PM

# Detained

Six arrested, guns and bomb parts seized in dissident crackdown

Four vehicles and a quantity of ammunition have also been uncovered by gardaí in searches carried out in Dublin and Wicklow.

10.2k

Sep 11th 2013, 6:10 PM

# alan ryan

Huge security operation in place in Donaghmede ahead of dissident march

Crash barriers are being placed along the expected route from the family home to the graveside of crime boss Alan Ryan.

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Sep 7th 2013, 7:30 AM

# News Fix

Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about junior doctors going on strike, AIB saying some customers just don’t want to pay their mortgages, and John Waters (briefly) going to jail.

10.2k

Sep 3rd 2013, 11:00 PM

# balgriffin

'Concern' amongst locals as Real IRA prepares to mark Alan Ryan death

The Real IRA crime boss was shot dead a year ago this week. Dissidents are planning a march at his graveside on Saturday.

14.4k

Sep 3rd 2013, 11:23 AM

# 15th anniversary

Pics: Remembering the Omagh bomb that killed 29 people 15 years ago today

The Real IRA planted the bomb in a parked car on Market Street in 1998.

14.8k

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Aug 15th 2013, 1:04 PM

# Attempted Murder

Three arrested over 2007 shooting of off-duty PSNI officer

The officer survived the attack, which happened as he sat in traffic. The Real IRA claimed responsibility for the shooting.

4.1k

Aug 14th 2013, 1:27 PM

# Omagh Bombing

Amnesty International joins calls for Omagh inquiry

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International says that questions remain unanswered over the policing and intelligence gathering around the 1998 bombing which killed 29 people.

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Aug 8th 2013, 7:44 AM