New IRA admits responsibility for death of journalist Lyra McKee in NI, apologi. - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/new-ira-admits-responsibility-for-death-of-journalist-lyra-mckee-offering-full-and-sincere-apologies-38041440.html The New IRA has admitted responsibility for the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry. Miss McKee, 29, died as a result of injuries sustained when she was shot on the Creggan estate on April 18. Police believe the violence was orchestrated in response to an earlier search by officers aimed at averting imminent trouble associated with this week's anniversary of the Easter Rising. In a statement given to The Irish News using a recognised code word, the group offered "full and sincere apologies" to her family and friends. "We have instructed our volunteers to take the utmost care in future when engaging the enemy, and put in place measures to help ensure this. In the course of attacking the enemy Lyra McKee was tragically killed while standing beside enemy forces. The IRA offer our full and sincere apologies to the partner, family and friends of Lyra McKee for her death." The New IRA is believed to have been formed between 2011 and 2012 following the merger of a number of smaller groups, including the Real IRA - the group behind the 1998 Omagh bomb. It is strongest in Derry, north and west Belfast, Strabane in Co Derry, Lurgan in Co Armagh, and pockets of Tyrone.

sorry for shooting your loved one to death we were trying to kill someone else lol

Full and sincere apologies after trying to pass it off as justified...

It's kind of surreal to see terrorists take responsibility for something like this, especially when they're all about public perception. Doesn't really help their cause.

I'm really not sure whether this is better or worse than offering no apology at all

Terrorists have never really been good at reasoning out their tactics.

It's actually better for them to claim it as intentional because now they just seem incompetent.

This is how the IRA and it's splinter factions have usually worked to some degree. Because they see themselves as a peoples movement they're often for good PR relations, so sending out messages like these is an attempt to make themselves look less like mortar lobbing car bomb maniacs (who don't even recognise the Republic / Northern Ireland as states) and more like the guys 'fighting the good fight'. If you recall the IRA would routinely in the later years ring up to warn about car bombs they had planted, and give general 'heads up' about their attacks into the late 80's and 90's. The IRA and it's splinters aren't you usual terrorist organisations really. Their history is convoluted as the original liberation army to later being subtly backed by the Republic of Ireland years ago, among being funded by Americans on mass and even states like Libya in one form or another. What terrorist organisations do street parades with drums and flutes in the open with crowds of spectators and government officials watching? Or have former members become politicians not only in the republic, but in the north too. The troubles and it's aftermath is honestly a very complex history.

The world's most polite insurgency

The IRA and Taliban are both weird as shit organizations like that

Its been IRA policy for pretty much their entire history to avoid or minimize civilian targets. From a PR standpoint it would be a major break from form if they didn't admit this was a tragic mistake on their part.

IRA policy =/= IRA reality

It really hasn't. for example check out this blog; IRA War Crimes – Deliberate Murders of Civilians – The Irish Pea.. The IRA have just always had this weird following amongst Americans of Irish Descent and Others who tend to just overlook what would be warcrimes if they were a legitimate Army because hey the British have also done some really fucked up things so that makes it okay.

The family of British Army soldiers are civilian targets too.

No https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/06/15/12/Unseen%20photos%20of%20the%201996%20Manchester%20bombing.jpg?w968h681 It hasn't.

If anyone thinks the IRA are 'sorry' for this you are deluded. They are terrorists and should be treated as such.

You have to keep in mind all these IRA splinter factions that exist now are largely little more than organised gangs with some romance behind them. They fund themselves by pushing drugs, their affairs are routed in making money through street crime or other dodgy affairs. There are some who try to push back against this and see themselves as protectors of local communities but their existence is less about the cause these days and more keeping themselves relevant.

Was Omagh a tragic mistake, too? They might not be out to specifically target civilians (though they have before) but that doesn't reduce or mitigate their guilt. Fuck them and fuck Ulster loyalists/paramilitaries they both deserve to rot alongside each other.

I live in omagh and everyone are really pissed off, some of us are scared over all this mess. Not to mention all the signs and things that people are putting up denouncing this shooting and not attending their parades, Other cunts are supporting this shooting (saying it's justified). I hope someday that the IRA and everyone involved with them get what's coming to them. I don't know what else to say about this. I don't like posting in these threads alot

If you’re actually sorry how about you turn the perpetrator in (and anyone else who “shot at the enemy”)?

Fuck the IRA, and fuck the deluded cunts that follow them

Please don't use that blog as source of information, from looking at the articles, it is quite clearly a biased Ulster Loyalist view. Nobody besides loyalists call the IRA, I-Ran-Away. Much better source for the troubles in general. CAIN

The biasedness of a source =/ the things reported fake news, look up any of these incidents, they all happened, there's no doubt that the source is biased but it's also the best resource for having them all collated in the same place.