The 8IRA, or Infinity IRA, is a splinter group of the Real IRA which, along with the Continuity IRA, splintered off from the Provisional IRA, itself a splinter of the original Irish Republican Army which succeeded in splintering Ireland into the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, the latter being splintered between Catholic republicans and Protestant loyalists to this day.
Being composed mostly of individuals belonging to the Millennial generation, the 8IRA is highly influenced by Internet culture and a postmodern outlook. Carrying on in the tradition of its predecessors who crafted homemade weapons in the face of strict arms control by the British, dez muddafuggas make shit ya'll wouldn't believe! Steeped in the avant-garde field of theoretical ballistics, the 8IRA has yielded innovations which include:
1) Rifling grooves located on the exterior of the barrel.
2) Depleted uranium folding stocks.
3) Karambit bayonets.
4) Rail-mounted kaleidoscopic sights (now featuring a "dynamic reticle").
5) Ghillie suits woven entirely from shamrocks.
======== Inspired by the popular rebel song "Fuck the British Army", the 8IRA has been known to recruit prostitutes off the streets of Dublin as part of a magically delicious plot to seduce both Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Henry of Wales into unwittingly siring Irish claimants to the throne of the United Kingdom. Rumors circulate as to whether gigolos from Tipperary have been enlisted in a similar scheme targeting Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
======== The 8IRA views the omnipresence of crossing lights such as pic related as irrefutable proof that the world is governed by a global conspiratorial cabal of Ulster Loyalists.
======== Being adherents to Austrian economics, the 8IRA has advocated a unified Ireland adopting a gold currency, the reserves for which are to be plundered from the cauldrons of leprechauns. Apart from highlighting this monetary platform as embodying barbaric ultranationalist speciesism, critics of the 8IRA also argue that the complete disappearance of rainbows from Irish skies which would result from this policy indicate the group's complete ignorance of regional climate change.
As young as the 8IRA is as an organization, it already suffers from the same tendency to splinter as its predecessors did. Recent splinter groups include the:
* Diversity IRA (DIRA) which proposes to allow enough Middle Eastern and North African migrants into Northern Ireland that Protestant influence in the six counties would be diluted down to nothing. Extremist elements within the DIRA, influenced by the existing migrant population, have in turn formed their own splinter group simply known as the IRA (Islamic Republican Army or Ansar al-Éire)
* Edgy IRA (EIRA) which campaigns for an Irish takeover of the United Kingdom while promising to grant their former occupiers home-rule as part of an "English Free State".
* Unstoppable IRA (UIRA) which conspires to make the Republic of Ireland a colony of Ulster.