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The partner of the late Lyra McKee has revisited the scene of her murder in Derry for an upcoming UTV current affairs programme.
Dissident Republicans in the spotlight in this week's UTV ‘UP CLOSE’
Des Dalton, the former president of Republican Sinn Féin (RSF), has left the organisation following his call for a dissident republican ceasefire.
The former president of Republican Sinn Fein has said that dissident republican violence is "counter-productive and copper-fastens partition". Des Dalton said that the "shifting political sands" following Brexit had put Northern Ireland's constitutional future at the centre of mainstream debate for the first time in half a century, A continuing armed campaign by dissidents was alienating people receptive to a republican analysis, he added. He said that the murder of 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee in Derry two years ago illustrated the "nihilistic nature of armed action for the sake of arm...
All armed paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have been urged to pull back from violence by the former president of hardline group Republican Sinn Fein. Des Dalton became the first political voice from Irish dissident republicanism to speak out, and his comments come at a time when there are signs of increasing tension within loyalist paramilitary factions. In an interview for a University of Liverpool project on Ireland's constitutional future, he advised those who are, like him, opposed to the Good Friday Agreement that "armed struggle" should be suspended. Dalton emphasised that he wil...