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The Ghosts Of IRAs Past

The normally verbose Jim Cusack, the security correspondent of the Irish Independent newspaper, comes over all coy in this reference to the recent assassination of the notorious Dublin narco-gangster Eamon Kelly:

“Growing up in north inner Dublin’s deprived Summerhill area, the young Eamon Kelly was attracted to the junior wing of the ‘Official’ IRA. He was inspired, according to Gardaí, by the then charismatic socialist republican figure, Seamus Costello, who split from the Official IRA and set up the left-wing terror group, the Irish National Liberation Army, in the mid-Seventies.

Before that split, Kelly was part of a coterie of young – in Garda language – “subversives” who were under regular surveillance and suspected of carrying out robberies on behalf of the Official IRA. The group included a young radical who has since gone on to become prominent in Irish politics, having eschewed the violence propagated by Seamus Costello and others who left the ‘Official’ movement.”

I wonder who on earth he could mean…?

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