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[[Fiannria]], despite being the founding place of the group, has banned it and the branch there is largely quiet. The [[Covina]] chapter, conversely, is comparatively enormous and represents one of the largest militias on the planet, claiming to field as many as eighty thousand local supporters and foreign volunteers fighting in a low-intensity guerilla war in the eastern reaches of the country. [[Faneria]] is often accused of supporting the organization due to GaelWind's goals being extremely similar to the justification used for the [[North Levantine Front (Great War)|invasion of Fiannria]] during the [[Great War]], particularly in regards to supporting GaelWind's mobilized forces in Covina. Nevertheless, the party is banned in Fhainnaeran and the local branches are believed to be relatively small after a series of crackdowns after the bombing of the Bonn Hotel. Fhainnaeran has specifically focused efforts in eradicating extreme cells within [[Lyukquar]] and [[Srathlann]], the two territories with the largest non-Gaelic populations and, in the former's case, the greatest ethnic tension.

GaelWind came into public focus in 1976 when the Hotel Bonn, a foreign-themed and run hotel in [[Sethsport]], was targeted by a terror cell operating under the GaelWind banner. A smuggled explosive device was used to destroy a wing of the building, followed by eleven armed militiamen assaulting the hotel and firing indiscriminately. The situation was resolved with [[GERB|a counterterrorism unit]] engaging with the terrorists in a gunfight, killing eight and capturing the remaining three. Seventy-three civilians were killed in the attack, with another one hundred and twenty injured; the attack marked the lowest point in the [[Lean Years]] in Faneria and resulted in a wave of counterterrorism actions resulting in over a dozen death sentences and the banning of the group. Two minor politicians who held office under the auspices of the GaelWind Party at the time were forced to give up their public careers.