Monday, September 21, 2009

Peace(s) In Our Time And Time Again I Told You So Terrible Isn't It?

Life in Northern Ireland is peachy these days, since the peace process made sure that All Violence has now Ended (see above photo from a recent carnival).

Or rather (BBC):

In the latest sporadic trouble, two cars were hijacked in the neighbouring towns of Craigavon and Lurgan.
In Craigavon, up to six masked men forced a man out of his car at the Drumbeg roundabout at about 2140 BST on Saturday. One was carrying a gun while another had a knife.
Twenty minutes later in Lurgan, two men, one armed with a handgun, stopped a woman driving a lorry. One of the men told her there was a device strapped to her vehicle and told her to drive to Lurgan Police Station.
She drove a short distance before getting out and called police, who examined the lorry but found nothing. The lorry was hijacked at a railway crossing at Lake Street.
It is the same area where hijacked vehicles were abandoned on the main Belfast to Dublin railway line on Thursday and Friday, disrupting train services.
Last week, a 600lb bomb was defused at Forkhill in south Armagh, a device which police said had been designed to kill its officers.