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Dissident republican

They regard both (the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast and Oireactas Éireann) in the Irish Republic as illegitimate, along with their respective police forces - the PSNI and the Garda Síochána.


Dissident Irish Republican campaign

Since the Provisional Irish Republican Army called a ceasefire and ended its armed campaign in 1997, breakaway groups opposed to the ceasefire ("dissident republicans") have continued an armed campaign against the British security forces in Northern Ireland.


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Christopher Maccabe

He is currently a member of a team appointed by the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland to oversee the August 2010 agreement between the Minister and dissident republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison.