It seems not a week passes lately where the scumbag republicans aren't trying to outdo the scumbag loyalists or vice versa. Last night a republican gang hijacked a taxi at around 10pm in the Kilwilkee estate and left a package on the back seat, before ordering the driver to take the car to the nearby Lurgan PSNI station. The gang then seemingly bailed out and left him to it.

The driver seemingly had more integrity in his little finger than the hijackers had combined, and parked the car outside a GAA club, as far away from any residential area as he could get, and called the police. Technical officers from the army (yes, that army we don't need anymore!) made the device safe.

Meanwhile, more republican scumbags attacked the police with 30 petrol bombs, and assorted other projectiles (including bricks and bottles), injuring 7 officers.

Follow up:

"The taxi driver, understandably, abandoned the vehicle in an area probably where there was the least number of houses and then informed the police. When the police cordoned off the area, a crowd gathered and started to petrol bomb the police. It is known that there are dissidents in that area and we are very much aware of dissidents continuing to corrupt our young people."
Dolores Kelly, SDLP

I'm not sure if the lowlife cowards that carry out these sorts of activities just love the violence and distruction, or if they're so completely stupid that the failure of the provisional IRA's 30 year campaign wasn't a clear enough message to them. The people of Ulster won't be bullied into anything, but something tells me when these delinquents were out lobbing potentially lethal missiles at the police, Irish unity wasn't foremost in their minds!