Ireland Terrorism 2018, CIA World Factbook

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

Ireland Terrorism 2018

SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on February 28, 2018

Terrorist groups - foreign based:
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA): aim(s): to bring about a united Ireland area(s) of operation: maintains a limited operational presence; in December 2016, authorities found a large CIRA weapons cache in Monaghan County, which borders Northern Ireland; on 5 February 2016, gunmen opened fire in Dublin at a boxing weigh-in taking place in the Regency Hotel, killing one man and injuring two others; CIRA claimed responsibility accusing the deceased of being involved in the 2009 murder of fellow Republican and Real IRA senior member Alan RYAN
Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA): aim(s): to bring about a united Ireland area(s) of operation: maintains a limited operational presence, centered primarily on generating revenue from smuggling and other illegal activities

NOTE: 1) The information regarding Ireland on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Ireland Terrorism 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ireland Terrorism 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) The assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order

This page was last modified 28-Feb-18

|Main INDEX|
2018 INDEX
Country Ranks
DEFINITIONS

Ireland Index 2018

Ireland Main Index
Introduction
History

Advertise Here

. Feedback




Ireland Terrorism 2018 SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES