The Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) is a terrorist splinter group from the RIRA and formed in 1994. CIRA has been active in Belfast and the border areas of Northern Ireland, where it has carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, extortion, and robberies. On occasion, it provided advance warning to police of its attacks. Targets have included the British military, Northern Ireland security forces, and Loyalist paramilitary groups. CIRA did not join the Provisional IRA in the September 2005 decommissioning, and remained capable of effective, if sporadic, terrorist attacks. The group has remained active in the past three years. In December 2012, a plot by CIRA to murder an Irish national serving in the British army
