Order Only: Bad News from Ireland

For those of you without access to the paper, there's very bad news from Ireland, I'm afraid. So I'm sending this along because...well, I'd hate to be in your shoes, Alice and Frank, having to break this to Moody.

It's in yesterday's evening edition of the Prophet:

Dublin. IMA Surrender Plot Foiled

Magical Law Enforcement, under the interim direction of Bellatrix Lestrange, have foiled a plot by the so-called Irish Muggle Army to detonate bombs during today's Surrender ceremonies.

The noon signing took place as planned in Our Lord's Library at Trinity College with the current leadership of the IMA making submission to Councilwizard Lucius Malfoy, Auror Lestrange, and Dominic Selwyn, Director of Protectorate Affairs, acting jointly on behalf of Our Lord and His Ministry.

From the rest of the article, and from what I've managed to piece together from bits and pieces on the wireless, it seems that MLE learned on Saturday that the IMA leaders who were going to be there at the surrender ceremony planned to detonate a bomb. Somehow that was foiled, and when they tried to spring their trap, the bomb fizzled.

There's at least one wireless report that one bomb did detonate yesterday afternoon, at a site about four miles away, but no injuries were reported. Wonder if it was someone who was on their way to the surrender who was stopped?

The Prophet article ends with this:

IMA treachery at the surrender was swiftly dealt with by Our Lord's Council and Aurors on the scene. All twelve members of the Irish contingent were found guilty of treason and executed.

Bugger.