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The IRA has to do what the IRA has to do

Saturday, 01 September 1984 00:00

IRA The Sinn Fein electoral wagon is slowing down. As a result, the IRA is likely to begin stepping up its war against the Northern state. Gene Kerrigan reports from Belfast and also interviews Sinn Fein's Danny Morrison on the party's recent successes and failures.

The belief that Sinn Fein is approaching its ceiling of votes is likely, according to republican sources to lead to a change in IRA military tactics. This may result in a return to a more intensive bombing of "econoomic targets". Within the Sinn Fein leadership it is now believed that the party is unlikely to out-poll the SDLP in the short term and secure a position as, the main representatives of the nationalist community in the North. The party will this month - after the new ward boundary arrangements are announced - work out its strategy for the 1985 local elections in the Six Counties. Sinn Fein may pered in its aim of maximisin'g its vote by e rule changes brought in by Margaret Thatcher after the electoral victory of Bobby Sands in Fermanagh-South Tyrone in 1981.

Noraid: the last Hurrah?

Wednesday, 01 February 1984 00:00 Marie Crowe

HARD BY THE SUBWAY STATION in downtown Queens, suburban New York, lies the Astorian Manor. A confection of neon and plaster, it offered, on this below freezing night in late January, shelter from the kind of cold that drives people insane. Within the haze of its baby-blue womb lay comfort and Aid. Irish Northern Aid. From Marie Crowe in New York

Operation Santa Claus

Sunday, 01 January 1984 00:00 Tommie Gorman

ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 16TH at 5.40pm Chief Supt J.J. McNally left Don Tidey in an upstairs room at 87 Main Street, Cavan and came to talk to reporters waiting below in the Garda Station. by Tommie Gorman

The accusing finger of Raymond Gilmour

Monday, 01 August 1983 00:00 Nell McCafferty

Magistrate John Fyffe said dispassionately: "If there is any disruption by any member of the public, or any relative — any person guilty of disruption or harassment will be excluded from the court." He sat back and the door in the wall to his right, a few steps up, opened. Three men in civilian clothes came out and down, quickly, smoothly, and were in place below the magistrate, still on his right, within seconds. The third man was Raymond Gilmour.

Frank FitzGerald and the Arms Crisis of 1922

Thursday, 31 March 1983 00:00 Michael Farrell

When Garret FitzGerald made his famous remark a bout Charles Haughey's "flawed pedigree", hinting at Haughey's involvement in the 1970 Arms Trial, he was being conveniently forgetful. 1970 wasn't the first time authorities in Dublin had tried to import arms for the IRA in the North. It had happened in 1922 as well. And then one of the principal figures involved had been Garret's uncle, Frank FitzGerald.

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