Alarm over huge Armagh weaponry find 23 May, 2021 01:00
While paramilitary violence on all sides has not entirely disappeared from our society, it thankfully remains at a low level, and attacks involving the use of deadly weapons like machineguns have become very rare indeed.
There have still been provocative stunts involving both republicans and loyalists over recent days, which were clearly designed to increase tension during a politically sensitive period.
However, a particularly alarming development was the seizure of a huge cache of weapons in Co Armagh last week, described as the most significant of its kind in Northern Ireland over the last decade, and officially linked by police to `serious organised criminals.