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What are the dissidents' goals?

Updated on 10 March 2009

By Alex Thomson

More4 News tries to shed some light on the strategies of the groups trying to undermine the Northern Ireland political settlement.

We speak to Peter Shirlow, an academic at Queens University in Belfast and Sean O'Callaghan, who was a member of the provisional IRA during the Troubles. He served a prison sentence for two murders and later became an undercover agent, working for the Irish police and as such rose to a senior position in the IRA.

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