Thread by @SNevin1

THREAD: @Jacob_Rees_Mogg has become the latest Brexiteer to belittle concerns about the implications of Brexit for security in Northern Ireland telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…

To help conversions on this topic be better informed, I thought I should write a timeline of terrorism (perpetrated by both sides) in NI. For brevity sake, I will only cover the period SINCE the Brexit referendum (23 June 2016). Brace yourselves. This will be a long one:

June 2016: The Police Service of Norethern Ireland (PSNI) believe that pipe bombs found in Derry/Londonderry on 17 June could be linked to "violent dissident republican terrorism" bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

July 2016: Police carry out a controlled explosion of a bomb found in Lisburn bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

August 2016: A major arms haul believed to be connected to dissident republicans is uncovered in County Armagh. The weapons are believed to belong to a group known to as the New IRA bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… Royal Marine Ciarán Maxwell is arrested in Somerset, England...

and later pleads guilty to offences related to dissident republican terrorism including preparing for acts of terrorism, bomb-making and storing stolen weapons and storing them in hides in England and Northern Ireland bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

September 2016: Dissident republicans form a new political party called Saoradh - the Irish word for liberation bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

September 2016: Four dissident republicans are charged with the attempted murder of police officers after the PSNI recovered an armour-piercing mortar during searches in Lurgan bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

October 2016: A West Belfast man is shot dead by a paramilitary organisation in his home. The shooting was the second in the small estate in less than a week - the other victim was shot in the leg bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

November 2016: The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann claim responsibility for shooting a man several times in the legs and groin in front of his mother bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

December 2016: Donal Ó Coisdealbha, a dissident republican is jailed in Dublin for planning bombings in the run-up to the visit of Prince Charles to Ireland bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

December 2016: Dissident republican Barry Petticrew is jailed after undercover Police found pipes, timer units, ammunition and high grade explosives at a bomb-making factory in County Fermanagh bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

January 2017: A police officer was shot at a garage in north Belfast when automatic gunfire was sprayed across the forecourt by dissident republicans in a driveby shooting. The Police Federation for Northern Ireland said the “attack on the life of an officer is a stark...

reminder of the determination on the part of terrorists to murder and maim” and that it underlined the fragility of the peace in Northern Ireland. “"It's one reason why the threat level here remains classed 'severe' which means a terrorist attack is highly likely”

telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/2…

January 2017: Police say a bomb discovered during a security operation in west Belfast was "designed to kill or seriously injure police officers" bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

January 2017: A couple in their 50s have been shot in the legs at their west Belfast home because they refused to hand over their son to dissident republican paramilitaries theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/j…

February 2017: A man was shot in the legs on the Falls Road in Belfast in a paramilitary style attack bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… The following night a 16 year old boy is also shot bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

February 2017: A bomb targeting a PSNI officer and his family in Derry/Londonderry explodes as British Army experts try to defuse it belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

February 2017: It was revealed that police in Northern Ireland deal with one paramilitary death threat against a member of the community each day bbc.co.uk/news/election-… Police statistics also reveal there were 66 paramilitary assaults in 2016/17 compared to 58 the previous year.

Loyalists were responsible for 56 and republicans the remaining 10. There were a further 28 paramilitary shootings in 2016/17 compared to 14 in 2015/16. Republicans were believed to be responsible for 25 of these and loyalists for the other 3. 4 of the victims were aged under 20.

March 2017: The New IRA attempted to kill a police officer in Strabane, County Tyrone bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

May 2017: Police admit they are struggling to bring those carrying out paramilitary shootings to court after the number of such attacks doubled in the year since the Brexit referendum bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

June 2017: Dissident republican Christine Connor is jailed for 16 years for attempting to murder British police officers bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… During her trial the PSNI reveals that about 16 officers either move away from Northern Ireland or have...

special security measures installed at their house every year because of threats against them. PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris says the threats are predominantly from dissident republicans but also from loyalist paramilitaries bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

June 2017: New-IRA affiliated individuals were arrested in Dublin while in possession of Semtex plastic explosive and associated detonators. The PSNI say the collapse of the Stormont Assembly has played a role in...

motivating the New-IRA to believe it can coalesce other groups around its increasingly aggressive agenda washingtonexaminer.com/inside-norther…

December 2017: MI5 report that Northern Ireland represents the "most concentrated area of terrorist activity probably anywhere in Europe", with terrorist activity disrupted on a weekly basis bbc.com/news/uk-424347…

February 2018: Just this week the PSNI confirmed that in the last 3 months there have been at least 9 punishment-style shootings across Northern Ireland - the highest rate in 4 years. Many victims were under 18 and children belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-n…

Recent claims that the GFA has “outlived its use” suggest the extremist wing of the Brexiteers take the view that a swashbuckling Brexit is more important than the risk of Northern Irish people killing each other – and killing British people too...

or that maintaining the peace process which put a stop to 30 years of civil war in the UK and has secured 20 years of FRAGILE, RELATIVE, peace is not only undesirable, but actually worth destroying, because it is a barrier to trade deals for things such as chlorine chicken.

No reasonable person can say that a return to violence is inevitable. However, it is disingenuous to deny there is a genuine risk. The peace process is far from perfect but it is a process, and that process is still ongoing.

Brexit has shown that it doesn’t take a lot of people to destabilise the status quo. The risk is that all it takes is one attack, by one person, at one border post and we are back to the dark old days of a militarised border.

As a senior civil servant in the Department for the Economy of Northern Ireland put it to me recently, ‘a “Norway style” or “Canada style” border might work for those countries but do either of them have terrorists trying to bomb or shoot them for doing their job?’

This is why “no hard border” and continued support for the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are so important. The future of Northern Ireland after Brexit requires contextualised and careful consideration.

Disingenuous and demagogic efforts to scapegoat the GFA or undermine the progress which has been made toward peace are reckless and irresponsible. I hope the extremist Brexiteers like Rees-Mogg and others will stop to reconsider the full implications of what they are doing. ENDS/

UPDATE: Two pipe bombs have exploded near homes in Lisburn, County Antrim bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

UPDATE: The chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland has said he fears that any border infrastructure would need to be policed around the clock and would put his officers’ lives at risk from anti-peace process paramilitaries. George Hamilton also expressed...

concern that the British government and the EU had not yet come up with a post-Brexit alternative to the European arrest warrant (EAW), which he said is a vital tool in the fight against terrorism on the island of Ireland theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/f…

Petrol bombs thrown at police during an illegal dissident republican parade bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

UPDATE: A new armed dissident group calling itself the Irish Republican Movement has issued a warning, saying that they will "actively target crown forces" irishnews.com/news/northerni…

A petrol bomb has been thrown at police in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast. Police said officers were responding to reports of a suspicious vehicle in the Ardoyne Avenue area when they were attacked by a crowd bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Three suspected dissident republicans have been arrested after a viable bomb was found during a number of searches in Strabane, County Tyrone, the PSNI have confirmed bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Explosives linked to dissident republicans have been discovered in Co Tyrone during searches by the PSNI at two addresses in the Benburb area belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

The PSNI have arrested two people as part of an investigation into violent dissident republican activity following searches in North Belfast and Dunmurry. A 38-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man were detained under the Terrorism Act belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

The dissident republican group Arm na Poblachta (army of the republic) was behind the murder of a man in west Belfast in February, police believe. Arm na Poblachta is believed to be connected to jailed Republican and former Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Northern Ireland's top police officer has criticised the lack of government decision making and guidance about security implications after Brexit. Chief Constable George Hamilton said the PSNI feels "in the dark" because of a lack of information. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

The Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI has warned that Brexit is being used by dissident IRA groups to recruit new members and warned that police officers will be targeted by terrorists if any kind of customs checks are introduced after Brexit politicshome.com/news/uk/uk-reg…

Brian Carron, a 34-year-old man has appeared at Dungannon Magistrates' Court charged with possessing explosives, firearms and articles for use in terrorism as well as charges related to the murder of police constable Ronan Kerr in 2011 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Police are to step up patrols in Derry/Londonderry after a series of riots and bombings in the Bogside and Creggan areas of the city. A car was also driven into a police. The PSNI said it is likely this was an attempt to draw police into confrontation belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

A man was injured after the attempted bombing of a car in Derry/Londonderry. A gas cylinder was planted in the car that was set on fire and a petrol bomb thrown at a house. 15 people were temporarily re-housed during security searches following the attack bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

The PSNI confirmed 3 petrol bombs were thrown at an Apprentice Boys Hall in Derry/Londonderry last night in what they believe was an attempt to draw in and attack on police belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

Petrol bombs and missiles were thrown at police in the Lecky Road area of Derry/Londonderry’s Bogside last night. The mainly Protestant Fountain estate was also attacked. The attacks are the latest of a series in recent days, some carried out by children bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Cars were hijacked & set alight overnight amid violence linked to traditional loyalist bonfires. A pipe bomb was detonated near to police who were clearing one fire site while other security alerts prompted the closure of main roads & Belfast City Airport rte.ie/news/ulster/20…

The UVF terrorist organisation has threatened to orchestrate "serious disorder" in Belfast tonight, according to PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd. The violent threat is linked the police moves to limit the size of loyalist bonfires in east Belfast rte.ie/news/ulster/20…

Police have been attacked in Derry/Londonderry on the sixth consecutive night of sectarian violence in the city. 74 petrol bombs and two improvised explosive devices were thrown at officers on Thursday night, police said bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

An explosive device has been thrown at former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams' house in west Belfast. Sinn Féin activist Bobby Storey's house was also attacked. Mr Adams is a member of parliament in the Republic of Ireland bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A grieving Catholic woman who lives in a mainly Protestant estate in Belfast has been threatened and ordered to leave her home within 24 hours by loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A man has been injured in what police described as a "paramilitary-style shooting" in west Belfast. PSNI say that the man in his 30s was shot in both legs in an alleyway in the Nationalist Springhill Drive area of the city at around 10.30pm last night. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A man has suffered injuries to his face and midriff after he was slashed with a sharp object in what the PSNI have described as a sectarian hate crime in Newtownabbey, County Antrim bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Two pipe bombs found in north Belfast "could have killed", PSNI have said. Homes, offices and a childrens creche were evacuated after the discovery close to a community centre on the largely nationalist Churchill Street on Wednesday bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Paramilitaries are extorting millions of pounds from small businesses in working-class loyalist or republican areas in NI, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The PSNI say most go unreported and it is a key way terrorist groups fundraise bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A viable pipe bomb has been found during a security in north Belfast.
Police were called to the nationalist Stanhope Street at about 12:50 BST on Saturday and a number of homes were evacuated. The bomb was defused by army technical experts. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A shot was fired at Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan's west Belfast office on Sunday night, not far from where a man was also shot in the leg at Norglen Road, in what PSNI called a paramilitary-style attack, earlier that day bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

There have been 87 paramilitary style attacks in Northern Ireland over the past year, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Most victims have been young people. bbc.co.uk/news/education…

A viable bomb has been found in the garden of a house in north Belfast. Army technical officers were called to examine a suspicious object at the property in the mainly Unionist St James Mews area shortly after midday on Friday bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

According to the Europol’s annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) 2018, of the 205 terrorist attacks (foiled, failed and completed) in the EU last year, 88 were in Northern Ireland, of which 58 were shootings and 30 were bombing incidents europol.europa.eu/sites/default/…

PSNI officers in Coleraine are investigating a paramilitary-style attack carried out on a 45 year old man at a house in Garvagh, Co Derry, last night. His daughter had offered them her piggy bank money to leave her family alone. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Senior paramilitaries from the UVF, one of the Troubles’ deadliest terrorist groups, have told the Irish government to “tone down” its rhetoric on Brexit, warning that any outcome that decouples NI from Britain would put peace and reconciliation at risk theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

An Antrim mechanic who received death threats and whose garage was burned in a UDA arson attack said he refuses to be intimidated by loyalist paramilitaries. The DUP said the attack was the latest in a spate which have resulted in deep community tensions bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Three "viable explosive devices" have been found during a security alert on the A26 motorway/Dunsilly Road in Antrim, the PSNI have said. Army technical officers dealt with the devices bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A pipe bomb that was discovered in west Belfast had the "potential to kill or maim," the PSNI have said.
The device was found at Slieveban Avenue in the largely Nationalist area of Andersonstown in Belfast at 11:30 GMT on Wednesday bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A man has been shot in the legs in what police said was a "vicious and brutal" paramilitary attack in the Gogarty Close area of Ballymagroarty in Derry/Londonderry. PSNI said an armed gang of up to eight masked men were involved bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Police and firefighters were called to a house fire in west Belfast on Wednesday and discovered a substantial haul of weapons including AK-47s; sawn-off shot guns; a high-powered rifle with a silencer & pipe bombs. The PSNI have blamed the New IRA bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

The PSNI is to recruit 102 extra officers by April in preparation for Brexit. Chief Constable George Hamilton said a no deal would "magnify all the demands and difficulties" but even an agreement would not mean "everything's sorted" with dissident Republicans...

and Loyalists posing a threat. Head Garda Drew Harris also highlighted the threat from dissident republicans, saying he wants co-operation between Gardaí and PSNI to continue after Brexit but that requires legal underpinnings currently provided by the EU bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A man in his 30s was shot several times in the arms, legs and in one of his hands in a punishment beating style attack. He was also beaten with iron bars, PSNI said. The attackers broke in through the back door of his house in Derry/Londonderry bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

5 cars and a van have been destroyed by arson at Dunlop Motors’ garage on Woodburn Road in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim.
The owner, Joe Dunlop, described the attack as "intimidation" by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a Loyalist paramilitary group bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

The Loyalist Communities Council, a a coalition of representatives from the UDA, UVF and the Red Hand Commando loyalist paramilitary groups, have told the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) they strongly oppose to the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and...

have urged the Prime Minister to end the backstop agreement. They also warned business lobby groups against speaking out on what the Loyalist Communities Council termed “constitutional issues” newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/bre…

A man has been seriously injured in a shooting in west Belfast. It happened on the Glen Road close to St Mary's Grammar School shortly after 15:00 GMT as children had just finished their school day bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A man has been under the Terrorism Act in relation to recent paramilitary activity by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). The arrest followed a number of searches by PSNI in the Galliagh, Buncrana Road and Ballymagroarty areas of Derry/Londonderry rte.ie/news/ulster/20…

A Catholic PSNI officer has said he had to cut ties with his family because of threats against their security after joining the force. Earlier this year the PSNI expressed concern at low levels of Catholic recruitment owing to intimidation by Republicans bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A Larne man, Niall Lehd, has appeared in court charged with a number of terror offences. The man is already serving a prison sentence related to his membership of the anti-Good Friday Agreement terrorist group the Irish Republican National Congress (IRNC) bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

The UK's most senior police officer, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, has warned that a no-deal Brexit could put the public at risk because it would threaten access to EU-wide criminal databases and impede extradition of cross-border criminals in Ireland bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

The family of ex RTÉ Voice of Ireland star Georgina Richmond has been forced to move after a string of attacks by dissident Republicans. Their properties in west Belfast have been destroyed after the latest attacks on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

2,000 families in Northern Ireland were forced out of their homes between April 2015 and October 2018 because of attacks by paramilitaries. 8 households a week presented themselves to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) as homeless due to threats m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

The NI Department for Infrastructure has withdrawn services from the Creggan estate in Derry/Londonderry following a series of sectarian threats made against public servants. The estate is believed to be a stronghold for dissident Republican activity bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A number of shots were fired at a Sinn Féin office in west Belfast last week, the PSNI have said. Detectives believe it happened in Monagh Crescent in Turf Lodge on Thursday 3 January at about 02:20 GMT. It was the second attack on the office since October bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

A car bomb has exploded outside the courthouse on Bishop Street in Derry/Londonderry. After receiving a warning call, police had just started evacuating nearby buildings, including a hotel, when the explosion took place bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…