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A FORMER IRA intelligence officer has claimed that some members of the Irish Government and An Garda Síochána colluded with the paramilitary organisation.
Speaking to the Guardian, Kieran Conway said that on one occasion, leading members of the IRA were able to escape before a raid by gardaí following an alleged tip-off from Special Branch.
He has detailed his journey from upper middle-class Dublin to the Republican movement in a new book, Southside Provisional: From Freedom Fighter to The Four Courts.
“I think that the army council had particular contacts with those in the security area which weren’t even shared with me,” Conway said.
We had contacts in the law offices of the state and contacts in the upper echelons of the guards.
He described this alleged collusion as “widespread”.
However, he refused to be drawn on what members of the Irish Government helped the IRA:
I really would not want to say. Wild horses wouldn’t drag me to the names of any of those in the establishment who helped us.
Conway told the Guardian that he left the Republican movement following the Downing Street declaration in 1993, and described it as a ‘complete and utter defeat’.
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Genuine question: As a qualified doctor would she not be many times more valuable working for her own people in Sudan than over here? There are probably Irish volunteer doctors working in Sudan.
@Tony Murphy: depending on her specialty. She probably arrived to work in Ireland on an Employment Permit, which was sponsored by the hospital that wanted to employ her. Before the permit was issued the government satisfied themselves that there was a shortage of that doctors type in Ireland and the EU and that having her working at the Irish hospital would be beneficial to Ireland.
There are good few Irish doctors and nurses who decide to go work abroad, because the salary is much higher in other countries (US and UAE), and the work intensity is about the same or lower. This causes shortage id doctors in Ireland, requiring hospitals to seek for doctors abroad. But you choose to blame the symptom, not the cause of the problem.
@Clay Pigeon: Yeah sure, buddy….
Sudanese refugees incoming
Here come the fascists…?
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