A previously tight-lipped city is co-operating with police over the attack
THE SHOT that killed Lyra McKee, one of Northern Ireland’s most promising young journalists, was fired by a youth urged on by embittered ancients still convinced that Irish republicanism can prevail only through the barrel of a gun. Leaders of the so-called New IRA, which has admitted responsibility for the murder, persuaded the unidentified killer that mainstream republicans had betrayed their followers by swapping violence for politics. Yet in so doing, they have gravely damaged their cause.
Their incompetence nonetheless makes them dangerous in other ways. This has recently been illustrated twice in Derry, with Ms McKee’s killing and, in January, the detonation of a car bomb in a busy street following a warning of only 30 minutes. The device could easily have caused civilian deaths or injuries. Dissident republicans also claimed responsibility for a number of parcel bombs posted to British addresses last month.
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