Believe it or not, a man I got to know shortly after coming to Dublin confessed that he had once gone to Belfast and opened fire on a group of people waiting for a bus.
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It was a bitter winter day in 1986 and as he left the church in the village of Aughnacliffe in north Co Longford after a funeral, I approached Albert Reynolds, the local TD, and asked if he knew why the man and woman had been murdered.
With anti-Republican sentiment running high in the wake of the Enniskillen massacre and the O’Grady kidnapping, and with the first wave of joint RUC-Ga.