The provisional IRA are still active.. they haven’t laid down there arms.. they are still the top dog in this country.. even the drug gangs have to go through them.. like you I thought they were long goneYou mean the dissidents ? (That’s what we call them ) the provisionals lay down their arms a long time ago, paramilitary racketeering is being eaten alive by foreign drug gangs , we’ve got everything from Chinese to S.American kingpins muscling in on their territory, the internal feuds are wild.