Apparently the target was the PSNI, but you're correct it was placed in close proximity to a school. Its been over twenty years since the Provisionals ceased operations, most of these people never had any connection with the actual IRA. they have very limited, localized support. They don't have any of the middle east or European contacts of the provos, nor to do they have the fundraising or weapons procurement network of the provos in the US. The leadership of the IRA is either dead, gone into politics, or become dedicated capitalists(smugglers)
That the bomb was placed in Ardoyne shows they don't even have any regard for the people they claim to represent. Ardoyne is a heavily nationalist area
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