Bad News From Northern Ireland

This:

Northern Ireland police say a 25-year-old officer has been killed by a booby-trap bomb placed under his car. Neighbors of the victim say the car was put ablaze by the blast in a neighborhood of Omagh. They say the victim had only recently joined the police force.
Since 2007, Irish Republican Army dissidents have planted dozens of booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers. The bombs usually fail to detonate and had killed nobody until Saturday.
Previously, two policemen have lost their legs in attacks in May 2008 and January 2010.
IRA dissidents committed the deadliest single bombing of the Northern Ireland conflict in Omagh in August 1998, when car bomb detonated amid a crowd. Twenty-nine people, mostly women and children, were killed.

The Real IRA and Continuity IRA continue to threaten the calm in the tenuous peace that has settled over the region since the Good Friday Accords and the Provos disarmament.  Hopefully the peace will survive and grow stronger.  Another report stated that the victim was a Catholic who had recently joined the PSNI, and the attack was intended to undermine efforts to recruit Catholics into the Northern Ireland police force.