Alleged New IRA Members Accused of Terrorist Offences After Covert MI5 Recordings
Two men accused of being members of the New IRA terrorist group have been remanded in custody by a court in Northern Ireland.
The pair were among four men arrested in west Belfast earlier this week as part of an investigation by MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, which dates back to 2020.
Ten people already await trial next year after being arrested in August 2020 as part of Operation Arbacia.
The New IRA was one of a number of dissident Irish republican groups which rejected the 1998 Good Friday Agreement—which had been signed by Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Provisional IRA—and threatened to pursue its aims of a united Ireland by violent means….