The curse of the REAL real IRA was always that anytime more than four or five of them were involved in anything, somebody would eventually run his mouth or just turn informer for factional reasons and bring the whole thing down. Not that they didn't kill a lot of people and create great havoc before being run down. Hopefully the same fate awaits these mugs.
Despite my own family's contingent of Irishmen, in teaching classes I've often summed up Celtic military history by saying 'The Irish love to fight, they're just not very good at it.'