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A short history of the many groups who ve claimed to be the IRA
Updated / Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020
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Analysis: from the Neutral IRA to dalliances with the Nazis, many different organisations have used the IRA name over the years
Sinn Fein TD and chairperson of the Dáil s Committee on Public Accounts, Brian Stanley, received a barrage of criticism for insensitive commentary on the Provisional IRA attack near Warrenpoint in Co Down, in August 1979. The attack involved the detonation of two separate devices - the second to target the army unit deployed to assist victims of the first bomb - and killed 18 British soldiers, five of whom were still teenagers. Stanley subsequently apologised for his comments, and deleted the offending tweet and his social media account.
difficulties domestically could pose a different and in some ways a more difficult set of problems for united states, japan and other countries we re so close to. mike barnicle, you are our crime correspondent. what s fbi director mueller saying this morning? this is, of course, the agent that began the cyber investigation that brought down general petraeus and is about to bring down the top general in afghanistan. he sent this picture to jill kelley who then decided to go to him later on to start a cyber investigation because a woman had sent her an e-mail that said nani, nani pooh-pooh. i think based on my knowledge of director mueller, he is probably looking at that picture and looking at the fact that that fbi agent cold called a republican congressman to report what was going on. just for the record, he sent this, he says, to doz dozens of people as a joke. that s supposed to make us