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News & Current Events May 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM

Man, 66, charged after car bomb attack outside police station in Northern Ireland

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irespondwithmyface May 1, 2026 +340
Car bomb? Northern Ireland? What year is it??
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1877KlownsForKids May 1, 2026 +140
Might be worth asking the bomber what year he thinks it is.
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xvandamagex May 1, 2026 +105
In his head, in his head, they’re still fighting.
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LesterGrossman_ May 1, 2026 +38
With their tanks…
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CockamouseGoesWee May 1, 2026 +23
And their bombs
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StayPuffedMarsh May 1, 2026 +12
And zombies, of course.
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1877KlownsForKids May 1, 2026 +3
An updated Zombies by a group called Bad Wolves hit my playlist recently, and it slaps.
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StayPuffedMarsh May 1, 2026 +3
Sorry if you like it, but I’m sick to death of that f****** cover. Keeps showing up in tik toks and YouTube shorts.
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1877KlownsForKids May 2, 2026 +5
That's easily solved by not watching TikTok or knock off TikTok.
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wh4tth3huh 3 days ago +2
Same, I hate that cover, they took a song with so much soul and just butt-rockified it.
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LBPPlayer7 May 1, 2026 +2
dolores herself sadly died at the hotel stay she booked to perform for that song as a guest the following day
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Particular_Milk9555 May 1, 2026 +47
We have still have occasional car bombs, this isn’t out of the ordinary. It’s more out of the ordinary that it’s getting so much news coverage.
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conradder May 1, 2026 +13
Right enough… probably because it happened east of the bann
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Particular_Milk9555 May 1, 2026 +6
No one seems to care when it’s in the likes of Lurgan, Derry or Strabanistan. Guess Lurgan is technically east of the Bann but it’s the exception.
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BasroilII May 2, 2026 +8
The. F***. Like I know us Americans are self-absorbed about our own politics but...the Good Friday Agreement was near 30 years ago. How the hell is that still happening?
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Osiris32 May 2, 2026 +18
Not everyone agreed to the agreement.
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BasroilII May 2, 2026 -6
Apparently not. Just wondering why. I mean yes NI is still a small Catholic island in a sea of Anglicans and still subservient to the British crown, so I guess there are those. But as I understood it the IRA was all but dead and the British government was a hell of a lot less shitty to Northern Ireland than they were in Thatcher's or Blair's day.
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Particular_Milk9555 May 2, 2026 +8
NI is not an island, it’s 6 counties in the northeast of the island of Ireland. The provisional IRA decommissioned and their political wing is currently the largest party but there are some who view them entering constitutional politics as a betrayal. We live mostly in peace but there are still occasional minor car bombs and shootings but it’s relatively contained.
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BasroilII May 2, 2026 +3
So feel like I should explain some things. As others already told you, the comment about an island is metaphorical. Yes Americans are by and largely inept in geography, but I can find each piece of the UK reasonably well, thanks. Perhaps not so well on other things, though. I did get it backwards on religion in NI- But for a bit of a reason. One of the reasons for the Troubles was conflict between Catholic separatists and Protestants wishing to remain in the UK. For some reason my brain short circuited and I processed that as "NI was predominately Catholic as opposed to the Republic of Ireland" and that was a factor. That was obviously a mistake and I should know better, given I was raised Catholic myself and heard the stories of St Patrick (Pádhraig) from childhood. I'll own it, I was stupid there. My main reason for shock and surprise was other posters commenting that car bombings in Ireland were still a "common" thing- and that shocked me. Those bombings during the troubles were components of a guerilla war that as far as I knew ended in 2005 when the IRA effectively de-militarized themselves. For a first-world country to still have cars blowing up on public streets enough for people to remark about it in such blase terms is strange enough. To be happening so long after (as far as I knew) that conflict was long over was astonishing. Oh and this wasn't part of the reason for my comments earlier but went and looked it up out of curiosity. At least as of the most recent census in 2021 Catholics are actually the largest Christian sect in the counties. Source: https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/census-2021-main-statistics-religion-tables Not really relevant, just an interesting fact.
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A_wild_so-and-so May 2, 2026 +6
Lmao, they meant a metaphorical island, as in they are Catholics surrounded by Anglicans.
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Particular_Milk9555 May 2, 2026 +4
But that’s even more incorrect? 1. Ireland may be majority Catholic but the 6 counties (NI) are not 2. Scotland and Wales are Celts, not Anglicans
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OldAccountIsGlitched May 2, 2026 +1
Anglican means the Anglican church. Aka the church of England and its many offshoots. Of course it's still incorrect because there are plenty of Presbyterians (a branch of Calvinism) in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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hajenso May 2, 2026 +2
If you want to start reading on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissident_republican
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BasroilII May 2, 2026 +1
Appreciate it. I really am surprised, I assumed when the Provisional IRA disarmed that was the end of it. Rather sad and disappointing.
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Fern-ando May 1, 2026 +15
Back to the 90's.
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FlutterbyTG May 1, 2026 +8
70's for me
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First-Ad-7466 May 1, 2026 +3
Exactly, the flashbacks
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Panda_Kabob May 1, 2026 +3
Hey! I've seen this one! It's a classic!
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thermitethrowaway May 1, 2026 +3
I think we're on a mid 70s speedrun, soon be cap in hand to the IMF followed by Kemi-Thatcher. As a northerner I'm dreading the last bit, but I'm not sure there is much left to close. Greggs maybe.
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turkishegg May 2, 2026 +1
2026 month is May
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Miserable-Biscotti54 May 1, 2026 -19
Isn’t it expected when you occupy another country?
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alltheothersrtaken May 1, 2026 +14
Are you American by any chance? Majority of Ireland do not want this shit back again.
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Nerevarine91 May 2, 2026 +4
I actually know someone (who is American) who has refused to speak to me or several other people for over a month because we said the Troubles were generally a bad time and we’re glad there’s a peace agreement, lol
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Psychological-Sun49 May 2, 2026 +2
People here have some \*\*very\*\* interesting opinions about Ireland.
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darraghfenacin May 1, 2026 +83
Good, f*** this guy. I hope he spends the rest of his cunty life in prison. What a sad stupid b******. 
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ChefBoiJones May 1, 2026 +25
Blast from the past this one
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Anyso435 May 1, 2026 +8
Are we really back to this again?
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BigToeArthritis 6 days ago +1
I'm 66 and a man but I swear I never been to Northern Ireland. Never. Not guilty.
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joozyan May 1, 2026 -3
Troubles 2 Electric Boogaloo
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Silencer-1995 May 1, 2026 -17
Christ on a stick, are those guys STILL at it!? Just knock it off and settle down over there, we got enough shit going on.
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Round-Medicine2507 May 1, 2026 -201
Oh they caught a random person at the age of probably needing life support how convenient a patsy. 
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AssassinInValhalla May 1, 2026 +130
>at the age of probably needing life support Man 66 is not that old lmao, tf
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Round-Medicine2507 May 1, 2026 -174
I forgot nobody gets cancer yay!
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AssassinInValhalla May 1, 2026 +81
That's the leap you're making? Children get cancer, that's such a stupid argument lmao
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omfgitzfear May 1, 2026 +23
Wellllll considering they’re on the same spectrum as their argument, that would explain why
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Consistent-Winter-67 May 1, 2026 +17
Do you think before you post?
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Nerevarine91 May 2, 2026 +10
They don’t just hand out cancer diagnoses at your retirement party, lol. Why would you assume a random 66 year old is on life support???
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Dry_Action1734 May 1, 2026 +65
Are you 10 years old? That’s the only way I can see you truly believing a 66 year old probably needs life support.
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Round-Medicine2507 May 1, 2026 -136
They cured cancer yay! 
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highersense May 1, 2026 +67
Evidently not as you're here posting.
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TrickiestToast May 1, 2026 +9
Funny that they’re username has medicine in it
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thedankonion1 May 1, 2026 +31
What a remarkably stupid comment. The "real IRA" and other splinter groups that still do bombings in Ireland today broke off from the Provisional IRA because they didn't accept the good Friday agreement. That was in 1998, 28 years ago. They're not gonna be spring chickens in the big year of 2026. I'm going to guess you're literally 14 because your 60s are hardly the age of dropping dead.
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ManassaxMauler May 1, 2026 +16
Sir 1998 was like 5 years ago what are you talking about?
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Nerevarine91 May 2, 2026 +3
Whenever anybody says “20 years ago” I think, “right, the 1980s”
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ThreeTreesForTheePls May 1, 2026 +12
How f****** old do you think 66 is?
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Consistent-Throat130 May 1, 2026 -51
If these were American cops I'd agree this is a patsy.  No idea how Irish cops operate.  The article provides no information on how this man was connected to the event - maybe a passing mention of CCTV footage but nothing else.  I'd want transparency, and live in the frame it an American context - so I'm inclined to agree this is a patsy until proven otherwise.  And while most folks don't suffer a severe mental decline by 66, I would certainly expect less tech literacy at that age.
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alltheothersrtaken May 1, 2026 +14
What does tech literacy have to do with anything?
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Consistent-Throat130 May 1, 2026 -22
Getting caught on camera and the like. 
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