Sinn Féin assembly member condemns attempt
Dissident republicans were blamed today after a suspected mortar bomb was fired at a police station in Northern Ireland.
The device missed the barracks in Craigavon, Co Armagh, and caused no injuries.
A year ago a policeman was shot dead by the Continuity IRA not far from the scene of this attack. Dissidents were behind last week's murder of Kieran Doherty, 31, in Derry as well as a number of other attacks on police stations.
Sinn Féin assembly member John O'Dowd said: "This attack was wrong and should not have been carried out. I would challenge those who claim to speak politically for these factions to tell the republican and nationalist community exactly how these sorts of activities, or indeed the recent murder in Derry, advance the cause of a united Ireland one iota."