While IRA attacks were less common in the north-east than elsewhere, the unionist community saw itself as being besieged by armed Catholic nationalists who seemed to have taken over the rest of Ireland.
虽然共和军的袭击在东北部少于其他地区，联合派社区视其自身为武装的天主教民族主义者所包围，后者似乎已经控制爱尔兰其余部分。