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Northern Ireland still troubled

Updated on 09 April 2008

By Carl Dinnen

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the Good Friday agreement, which was supposed to end the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Some paramilitary groups have laid down their weapons; the number of victims has fallen dramatically.

An all-too-regular feature of life during Northern Ireland's Troubles: murders, vicious beatings and shootings meted out by the paramilitary groups dominated entire communities.

But a decade on, the paramilitaries are still operating in Northern Ireland and many are still holding onto their guns.

Police say there is a continuing threat from dissident republicans and the man widely thought of as the leader of the loyalist UDA has told Channel 4 News that his organisation will keep its weapons because it can police the community better than the police themselves.

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