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Republican Sinn Fein defends attack

By More4 News

Updated on 16 March 2009

Following last week's dissident republican violence in Northern Ireland More4 News asks: will they seek to attack again and if so, how do they justify it?

The attacks saw the deaths of three people and serious rioting at the weekend.

Condemnation for the dissident groups has been almost universal; and their support, though clearly significant enough to mount paramilitary attacks, is small.

Alex Thomson meets Des Dalton, a senior member of Republican Sinn Fein, the largest dissident organisation, regarded by the British, Irish and American governments as being close to the Continuity IRA, the group who killed a Catholic policeman in County Armagh last week.

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