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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
Also in the 1980s, the Provisional IRA were involved in the kidnapping and ransom of businessmen Gaelen Weston, Ben Dunne and Don Tidey. Activities such as these were linked to the IRA's fund-raising. Gardaí estimate that the Provisional IRA got up to £1.5 million from these activities. [217]
Donna Maguire (born c. 1967 in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland [1]) is a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) once described as Europe's most dangerous woman. [1] A former convent girl from Newry, Maguire joined the IRA and, according to The Independent newspaper, was trained by Dessie Grew.
After the end of the Irish Civil War (1922–23), the IRA was around in one form or another [definition needed] for forty years, when it split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA in 1969. The latter then had its own breakaways, namely the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA , each claiming to be the true successor of the Army of the Irish ...
' The Women's Council ' but in English termed The Irishwomen's Council), [1] abbreviated C na mB, [2] is an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation formed in Dublin on 2 April 1914, merging with and dissolving Inghinidhe na hÉireann, and in 1916, it became an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers. [3]
All three men were cleared of conspiracy to aid terrorists and to commit murder. They were later sentenced on the less serious smuggling charge. [77] The IRA leadership denied knowledge of the arms buys. In April 2002 it was reported in media outlets that the IRA had bought at least twenty Russian AN-94 assault rifles in Moscow in late 2001 ...
The pistols were lubricated with West German oil and the packaging was taken from several countries around the world by KGB agents so that the weapons could not be traced back to the Soviet Union. The weapons were brought to Ireland using the ship known as the Reduktor. [51] Official IRA members also travelled to the Soviet Union for training.
Usually the bodies of informers were left in public as a warning, but the IRA secretly buried McConville, apparently because she was a widowed mother of ten. The IRA had first done this type of secret burial two months earlier, when it killed and buried two IRA members who were alleged to be working undercover for the British Military Reaction ...