Dieter Reinisch

University of Galway

Dr Dieter Reinisch is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway

The PSNI say information from this month's data breach has made it into the hands of dissident republicans. Photo: PA

Who are the dissident republican groups behind PSNI data threats?

The PSNI data breach has focused attention again on dissident republican groups who are still operating in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland • 24 Aug

UDA and UFF murals in east Belfast. Photo: Kaveh Kazemi/ Getty Images

The loyalist paramilitary threat behind Northern Ireland's crisis

The loyalist influence on unionist parties has pushed the DUP towards disrupting any political progress in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland • 23 Feb 22

When the Maze prison closed in July 2000, among the last items to leave the compound were 10.000 books – which the IRA prisoners had collected since reading Freire in 1982.

The Brazilian educator who helped shape prisoners in the Maze

Paulo Freire's writings enabled IRA prisoners to perform a more active role in the outside republican movement and the peace process than in previous decades …

Paulo Freire • 24 Sep 21

How Portlaoise Prison set the stage for H-Blocks hunger strike

The circumstances which led to Bobby Sands embarking on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland in 1981 all started with the move of the republican …

Hunger Strikes • 21 Apr 21

Anti-internment protesters outside the House of Commons in London in 1971. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/ CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

How an Armagh court ruled internment was unlawful in 1972

Almost 2,000 people were detained without trial in Northern Ireland during the 1970s after the introduction of internment

History • 05 Jan 21

A woman IRA volunteer on active service in west Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle. Photo: Colman Doyle Collection/National Library of Ireland

The story behind an iconic Troubles' photo

How Colman Doyle's 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles.

Northern Ireland • 21 Sep 22

The influence of loyalist paramilitaries on the UK election

Mainstream unionist parties are paying heed to loyalist anger over Brexit and concern about a border poll

Northern Ireland • 24 Sep 21

Youths walk past anti-IRA graffiti in Derry the day after journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

Why there's still support for dissident republican groups

Despite widespread condemnation of the killing of Lyra McKee, the New IRA will continue to use violence on the streets of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland • 24 Sep 21

A bomb disposal officer checks for further devices as forensic officers inspect the remains of a van used in a car bomb attack outside Derry Court House. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

Will Brexit increase the threat from dissident republicans?

Recent events in Derry and Belfast highlight the fact that those labeled the "biggest threat to Ireland" have not gone away

Brexit • 24 Sep 21

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