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Previously confidential files released this week in Dublin, Belfast and
London under the 30 year ruled provide evidence of the increasing role
of the ‘Dirty War’ -- the use of covert intelligence and the SAS
shoot-to-kill strategy by the British government.
The summary imprisonment of Belfast man Terry McCafferty on the eve of
Christmas is being viewed by republican activists as a vindictive
reprisal for the release of the ‘Derry 4’, whose trial collapsed in
Dublin just days before.
Campaigns to lobby for a united Ireland could tap into the huge Irish
populations living in the US and in Britain, Sinn Féin President Gerry
Adams has said.
A bomb discovered on Christmas Eve close to an Armagh Gaelic club could
have been picked up by children who regularly use the area.
The President of Republican Sinn Féin, Ruairi O Bradaigh, has rejected
a claim that the IRA sought peace talks with the British government in
early 1978.
Independent TD Tony Gregory died today [Friday] at the age of 61 after
a long illness.
The full text of the New Year statements issued by Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and republican organisations
in Ireland.
It is the contribution of the hunger strikers which will endure and make the
difference to peace, justice and freedom - not that offered up by
Cruise O’Brien.
