Police in Northern Ireland declare security alert after reports of a car bomb explosion

Never going to pass up a chance at posting this.... [1933](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmnBcNijvo)

You mean all the people chanting death to the Jews? Probably you don't.

It’s kind of been bubbling in the background the entire time, there have been hundreds of bombings in Northern Ireland since 2000, albeit usually on a smaller scale than what we think of when we think “bombings” and there being some years when there’s not been many. Been to Belfast a few times in the past 15 years or so due to having family there and it hasn’t been totally unusual to hear about petrol bombs and stuff on the radio. I was quite surprised the first time because it doesn’t seem to be reported very much in England, which is quite striking really because a single bombing anywhere here would be massive news. I think we like to pretend that the whole issue has been neatly tidied away. Not disputing your comment at all though, Brexit hasn’t helped on any front so I am entirely unsurprised that it has antagonised this aspect too

Nothing to do with Brexit, the IRA has never actually went away and has still always been operating under different names to provide plausible deniability while looking for any excuse to cause chaos. The UK never left the EU until 2020 yet in 2019 journalist Lyra McKee was murdered after an "New IRA" gunman opened fire on police lines during a riot hitting her The riot which broke out that she was covering had nothing to do with the EU or Brexit

Social media has been "glamourising" extremism, this shit was inevitable unfortunately

They're all old wounds. All that's happening in America right now is old wounds too.

> Previously there was free movement between ROI and NI as part of the Good Friday agreement. Freedom of movement predated the GFA. British and Irish citizens have always had freedom of movement across the UK (all of it) and Ireland, and it is more comprehensive than the EU version > So there's no good way to have an open border there, because goods and people crossing it are crossing into and out of the EU. There can't be a way for people to fly into the UK and then just walk across the border and enter the EU without any form of EU customs like that. The NI/ROI border is as wide open as ever. You literally can walk across it. A large part of the Brexit negotiations was on ensuring that this would not change. The EU would have reason to be concerned about goods, but the UK government has made agreements to assist with that. Movement of people is not an issue. Ireland is not in the Schengen area so all intra-EU travellers need to go through border controls anyway. The UK and Ireland are part of their own "Common Travel Area" which predates Schengen and the GFA. The people of NI generally won't have lost any personal rights either, as almost anyone born there is considered an Irish (and therefore EU) citizen should they wish to take it up. That *was* part of the Good Friday Agreement. Brexit absolutely is a clusterfuck, but NI is more or less shielded from it and it is disingenuous to suggest that it's going to lead to the restart of the troubles (which, if it was going to happen, would have happened already considering the referendum was 10 years ago and it finally left 5 years ago)

That's a bit reductive. You can have a much better standard of life in the north with the same amount of money. The south has it's giant corporations there for the tax benefits but you'd be surprised how little of that wealth is seen by the people, and the housing crisis there is... well basically the worst of anywhere. No free at the point of access healthcare like we have in NI, high taxes for private citizens, future uncertainty given their dependence on foreign corporate interest. The story isn't quite as cut and dry as Irish republicans would have us believe

The UK doesn’t want the issues it caused then turned a blind eye too. Great.

Having a need to and a desire to are two different things. While you are most likely correct about the loyalists fighting and their reasoning, there is a long and well documented history of people getting revenge when their side wins. And given some of the talk he's heard from his relatives in northern Ireland about how loyalists and other "traitors" need to be punished, I'm betting people will be doing what they always do.

Both sides used car bombs. The deadliest attack of the troubles was a loyalist car bombing

I live in the north of Ireland. I agree with their comment.

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The GFA made a way for a United Ireland through a vote. You don’t get people on your side with bombs.

So they should start bombing people again? That’s a great plan mate. The people accepted the current way and made peace in the Good Friday Agreement which sets out a way for a union referendum to happen if a majority want it, there’s no oppression going on, these aren’t freedom fighters or something they’re terrorists.