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Catherine McCartney
Are the IRA still active and what does this mean for Northern Ireland's political stability?
Stephen Sackur talks to Catherine McCartney whose brother was murdered in Belfast in 2005. She thinks the IRA was responsible, and that the Republican paramilitaries are still active to this day. The charge - that the IRA has not gone away - now threatens Northern Ireland’s fragile political stability - but is it true?
(Photo: Catherine McCartney)
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