http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36267052
They more or less got their own way. They have exes and offices in the Parliament. McGuiness even shook hands with the queen. It's not like the UK is itself independent. Christ Guys if you want to do terrorism go to the real occupying power in Brussels.
The risk was always that the terrorists had fragmented so what could be agreed with the original high ranking ones need not get accepted by all. Hopefully this is an over-reaction; but I guess only time will tell. One wonders how those with some official power in government today will react to this.
These splinter groups, Continuity IRA,Real IRA, and others, haven't the support, the volunteers, or the material that the Provisionals did. Besides, Islamic terrorists have raised the bar so high it would be difficult to match them in depravity.