A grenade was left at the home of a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) last night.
The device was discovered at a property in the town of Maguiresbridge in County Fermanagh. A bomb disposal team made the device safe and investigations are ongoing. Small republican groups who have broken away from the mainstream Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) have carried similar attacks in the past. It is also believed that they may have stolen a caché of grenades from the Irish Defence Forces, the official army of southern Ireland.
The attack has been condemned by politicians. Michelle Gildernew, the elected representative for Fermanagh and a member of the IRA's political wing, Sinn Féin said:
"We in Sinn Fein have shown that there is a peaceful and democratic path to a united Ireland; the vast majority of the people in Ireland have accepted this and I would encourage others to join us on this path"
The mainstream Provisional IRA declared their campaign ov violence over in 2005 however small splinter groups such as the Real IRA and Continuity IRA continue to carry out small-scale attacks.
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