Police cordon off the area where a bomb exploded in Lorgan, Northern Ireland. A bomb blast has injured 3 children in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. Police said a bomb exploded without warning in a wheelie bin in Lurgan in South Armagh, injuring three children who were playing nearby.
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They said two children aged 12 and a three-year-old suffered minor wounds after they were hit by flying debris when they bomb went off in the stronghold of the dissident republicans.
The discovery of a suspicious object near a school in another part of the town led to forcible evacuation of homes in the area.
The dissident republicans have recently stepped up their activity within the province with several failed bomb attacks against security forces.
Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has appealed for calm ahead of Sunday's Apprentice Boys Relief of Derry parade in Londonderry.
"The people of Northern Ireland have made it abundantly clear that they do not want violence on our streets," he said.
"I want to take this opportunity to appeal to anyone who might think that violence this weekend will achieve anything to step back and think again. Violence is not the way forward," added Ford.
Last Tuesday, a civilian police worker escaped serious injury when a suspected booby trap fell from his car as he drove to work.
In an attack on 3rd August, a 200lb bomb left in a hijacked taxi detonated outside a police station in Londonderry, causing substantial damage but no injuries.
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Secret talks with NI dissidents questioned
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Following revelations that London and Belfast may be engaged in secret talks with the Republican dissidents in the Northern Ireland, analysts are warning that drawing parallels with 1990's Sinn Fein will be far fetched.
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IRA DECLARES WAR ON BRITISH BANKS
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On Thursday, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said that British and Irish governments have covertly held talks with the Republicans involved in the recent bombings.
Yet Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson earlier dismissed any such ideas.
McGuinness from Ireland's biggest republican party Sinn Fein was the very secret negotiator via a "back channel" in Derry with John Major's government in 1993.
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Republican groups fighting for independence of Ireland from Britain have been reportedly behind the recent bombings targeted at security forces which have left several people injured.
"Some of these dissident groups, I know for a fact, have been involved in discussions with both the Irish and the British government in recent times," McGuinness told the BBC radio.
Both London and Irish government rejected any such claims, calling to mind Major's remarks seventeen years ago that it would "turn my stomach" to talk to the likes of Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader since 1983.
The government did sign a peace treaty with Sinn Fein in 1998 which resulted in the present devolved government in Northern Ireland.
But experts say it is not easy to ignore the MI5 intelligence gathering operations within the then Provisional Irish Republican Army which convinced the government in London that a major peace streak in IRA could be shored up to help the realization of a peace agreement.
It is also being argued that the broken nature of the republican resistance in Northern Ireland means London and Belfast are not facing a united front which can be talked into a truce through employing spies who advance the peace party. Among the three dissident groups now active in Northern Ireland, the Continuity IRA has even refused to discuss an end to its armed campaign even with Sinn Féin, let alone the British or Irish governments.
Also Oglaigh na hEireann seems to be stepping up its bomb attacks aimed at undermining the diplomatic process rather than promising a future peace accord.
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THE FUTURE IS BLEAK... 'PIPES OF PEACE'!!!
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