In March 2009 came the first security force fatalities since the end of the Troubles . The Real IRA shot dead two British soldiers as they collected a delivery outside Massereene Barracks in Antrim . Two other soldiers and two civilian deliverymen were also wounded by gunfire . Two days later , the Continuity IRA shot dead a PSNI officer responding to a call in Craigavon . This began the most intensive period of dissident activity since the campaign started . The number of attacks has risen each year , with 118 attacks in 2009 , 239 the following year and a higher number the year after that
shot dead a PSNI officer
Killing of Stephen Carroll
Dissident Irish Republican campaign