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A group branding itself the "IRA" has claimed credit for a bombing earlier this month in the Northern Irish city of Derry. The New IRA said as much when it eventually took responsibility for the Derry car bomb. Derry City News Policing Security report warns of ‘growing sophistication’ by dissident bomb makers.

by John April 30, 2020. The New IRA, a dissident republican group, was responsible for the murder in April of journalist Lyra McKee. Headline New IRA ‘will be unaffected’ by murder on Derry street.

by John June 7, 2020. Derry City News Policing Recovered New IRA gun to be tested for any link to murder of Lyra McKee. Dissident republican group the New IRA is suspected of being behind Saturday’s car bomb attack in Derry in Northern Ireland.

The 29-year-old was shot dead during rioting in the Creggan area of Derry. Andrew Testa for The New York Times “We’re still living in poverty,” Mr. Mallett said. News 'IRA' claims bombing in Northern Ireland's Derry. Police in Derry believe the dissident republican group the New IRA was behind an explosion outside the city’s courthouse on Saturday night.