Bomb explosion in Northern Ireland by Barbora Misakova

When lawmakers approved the transfer of policy and justice administration from London to Belfast, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it is “final end” of decades of strife. The explosion of car bomb on Monday proved the exact opposite. A car bomb has exploded near the headquarters of Britain’s MI5 domestic security agency in Northern Ireland. As a police spokeswoman said: “A device has exploded in a vehicle at the rear of Palace Barracks in Holywood.” Barracks houses hundreds of employees of the Security Service or MI5 what is the United Kingdom’s counter-intelligence and security agency. Nobody was seriously hurt in the blast, but ! taking into account the time of the explosion, the bomb was not meant to kill. The time of explosion was symbolic – just few minutes after the devolved power-sharing administration in Belfast resumed control for the first time in 38 years. When in 1972 Britain seized control from Ireland’s local ministers because of violence known as “The Troubles”, devolved administration fell promptly and more than 3,500 people died in the conflict. Power-sharing transfer should had been a sign of peace between Catholics who are longing for the independent Republic of Ireland and Protestants who wanted to stay within the United Kingdom. Even though the main paramilitary groups have laid down their arms, sporadic violence still appears. Just last year two British soldiers and a policeman were killed. Latest bomb attack was condemned by local lawmaker Naomi Long, deputy leader of the cross-party Alliance party, who said: “I would utterly condemn any such attac! k and am sure that the vast majority of people from across our! communi ty are sickened by the actions of people who seem intent on dragging Northern Ireland back into the past.”

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