AIBU to ask if you know a viable device was found in NIre Friday night?

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As far as I am aware this was not reported in the main news, looking on the BBC website it was only a small segment in the NI section. It seems to me as if the mainstream media want to minimise the seriousness of Brexit when it comes to Northern Ireland - if this was a possible terrorist attack (which it is) in any other circumstances it would be all over the news . I'd be interested to hear if anyone or everyone had heard about this event as I know if I'd not looked at Irish news I would be blissfully unaware. I'm sick with worry about Brexit and the repercussions.

Makes me wonder how many other things go "unreported"

www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2019/0727/1065560-explosive-device-co-armagh/

Most foiled terror plots go unreported unless there is an FOI by the press, to create an article.

No where in that article is Brexit mentioned

YADNU

As someone from NI I reckon 99% of issues here never get reported in the ‘main’ news.

What made the London riots especially ironic was that the reports all mentioned that water cannons aren’t used in Britain while the NI local section opened with the use of water cannon in NI to disperse an anti social crowd.

There were 420 viable devices found between 2007-2010

(Those figures just being the first if many, many hits on google, if you search for 'viable devices')

Be very wary of claims this must be Brexit - either the number of occurrences (not really changing) or lack of reporting (consistently under-reported)

I saw it on the BBC news app but I couldn't tell you if it was under top stories or the 'latest' news section when I looked.

I think there has been security alerts in N.ireland going on for years, the latest one is being blamed on dissident republicans nothing to do with brexit

I think people are really under-estimating the likelihood of a return to violence in NI if Brexit goes ahead.

It's possibly the only thing I've ever agreed with John Major about. He spoke very eloquently (and passionately) about it on Hard Talk the other day (Still on iPlayer, I think).

And anyone who lives on the mainland thinks it won't affect them, I suggest they think again. I can remember only too well the constant, low-level fear, frequent disruption because of incidents or suspected bombs, and I heard the Grand go up in Brighton, from my friend's flat about half a mile away. If we'd walked home from the cinema the other way, we could have been walking past.

Bloody terrifying.