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Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein Peter Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Feb 16, 2011 - The Sinn Fein leader has sent the threats of legal proceedings to the Herald after we highlighted the plight of the McConville family this week. Mr Adams accompanied them to a meeting with a He said his father was also aware of plans for an IRA prison escape - which was later botched - and suspected insiders were helping the Provos. Aug 9, 2013 - His sons Austin, who is assistant governor of Dublin's Wheatfield Prison, and Oliver had met with the Sinn Féin leader in May, where they urged him to put pressure on republicans to reveal what they knew about the killing. May 31, 2007 - All that was required was a sufficiently persuasive concession on IRA decommissioning – a list of weapons put beyond use, for instance – and Trimble would probably have survived. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, who has died aged 80, was an IRA army council member and emerged from the nationalist movement's realignment of 1969-71 as president of Provisional Sinn Féin. A powersharing government would thus have Any analysis of this period must therefore examine the possibility that this was deliberately contrived, that the Provo leadership delayed decommissioning in order to foster Sinn Féin's electoral growth. I hated everyone who sympathised with them and I hated everyone who served for them. Jul 30, 2011 - The Real IRA say they want to kill five named men who informed on the provos' activities. Four months earlier, Donaldson (56), Sinn Féin's chief administrator at Stormont, had admitted being a long-serving British spy. As a journalist, I have to be impartial – making judgements based on the evidence I see before me And consequently, growing up, I hated the IRA. But this is the first time he has threatened to sue journalists. Jul 28, 2008 - When the Marxist-orientated Official IRA declared a unilateral cease-fire in 1972, the chiefly Ulster membership reformed itself as the Provisional IRA ('Provos'), with Sinn Féin as its political wing. Today, Mrs Conville's family said they will not be silenced by his bully boy tactics. Sep 13, 2013 - The difficulty for Colin Duffy and The IRA is that they know they have no legitimacy until such time as they purge the contempt that Sinn Fein have shown for The IRA. Duffy knows that he cannot simply walk away from his association with the Provo leadership sell-out. Adams has been accused numerous times of being on the IRA army council and of being a senior Provo chief in the Belfast area. Feb 16, 2011 - Responding to questions on sanctions against Sinn Fein for IRA actions, Adams said: “We have no problems with structures to ensure all parties are compliant with the agreement. But there were other consequences. May 12, 2014 - He's been denounced, in various graffiti around Belfast and by Sinn Fein themselves, as a “tout” and an “informer”, a disgruntled ex-Provo motivated by his hatred of the Peace Process and the feeling that Gerry “sold him out”. Duffy and many of his comrades were members of The PIRA and this means they have some guilt by association with the surrender of Irish Republicanism to the British.