A garda mole tipped off terror chief Michael McKevitt that his Dundalk home was to be raided by police, a damning collusion report revealed.
Details about how a rogue Dundalk-based cop warned the then Provo quartermaster to remove false passports from his house were contained within the Smithwick Tribunal report in 2013.
The investigation was set up in 2005 to examine allegations that Irish police officers had helped the IRA murder RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan in March 1989 following a meeting at Dundalk Garda Station.
The probe ruled there was collusion in the killings.
Gardai were tapping the Louth home phone of McKevitt when a caller who rang the line in January 1990 was recorded telling the republican: You will be having visitors in the morning.
An MLA has called for police to crack down on “unscrupulous” illegal fuel launderers after more toxic waste was dumped at an Armagh beauty spot.
Justin McNulty spoke to the Sunday World after three more giant pods of fuel waste were dumped on the side of the road near Forkhill.
Cross-border fuel smuggling is believed to have helped finance the Provisional IRA with criminals like Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy at the forefront.
Four years ago the Republic’s taxman announced such activity had been “wiped-out” due to new preventative measures but fuel laundering remains big business, according to Mr McNulty.
The SDLP representative says it’s at least the 12th time it has happened in the exact same spot in ten years.