The Irish News
Seamus McKinney
The Real IRA has admitted responsibility for a series of murders on both sides of the border stretching back more than 10 years.
In a statement to The Irish News the dissident republican group said those targeted were drug dealers and criminals.
Among the attacks were killings in the Republic previously regarded as gangland executions.
The group said it killed Matthew Burns (26), from Castlewellan, Co Down, in 2002. Until now no group had admitted the murder, although republicans were believed to have been responsible.
It also admitted the murder of former 32-County Sovereignty Movement member Kieran Doherty in Derry earlier this year.
The Real IRA said it was releasing the statement in response to "sensational" media reports that it was involved in extortion.
Yesterday a man described in court as the Real IRA's second-in-command was jailed for 20 years for his part in a gun-smuggling plot uncovered by an MI5 sting.
Paul McCaugherty (44), of Beech Court in Lurgan, boasted that he belonged to the dissident group which made the Omagh bomb.
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