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15 Facts You Didn’t Know About the IRA in Ireland

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14. IRA Decommissioning of Weapons

14. IRA Decommissioning of Weapons
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Following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) agreed to disarm and decommission its weapons, a process overseen by the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD). In 2005, the IICD confirmed that the IRA had completed the decommissioning of its arms, marking a significant milestone in the Northern Ireland peace process (bbc.com).

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