In the Republic, trials for membership take place in the Special Criminal Court (where three judges hear cases without a jury, on the evidence of a Garda superintendent or higher rank) and carries a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment. } userID: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.user_id, The Sunday Times has revealed for the first time the full list of the men who run the IRA. It is rare for the Garda to make an official statement on the links between the IRA and Sinn Fin. }).map(function (key) { Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Senior members of Sinn Fin, some of whom, according to both the British and Irish governments, have sat on the Army Council, together with IRA members not known to be involved in illegal activities, have been effectively immune from prosecution in recent years in order to enable progress in the peace process. 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Continuity Army Council IRA glaigh na hireann (Volunteers of Ireland) Description Terrorist splinter group formed in 1994 as the clandestine armed wing of Republican Sinn Fein (RSF), which split from Sinn Fein in 1986. March 1, 1981: Bobby Sands, an Irish-Catholic IRA member, starts what will become a 66-day hunger strike. Copyright: The content on this page may not be republished without our express permission. The Northern Ireland secretary told MPs the police and MI5 assessment showed that the IRA "is not involved in targeting or conducting terrorist attacks against the state". bundle: 'premium-plus', Theresa Villiers was detailing the findings of an official. The IRA Army Council was the decision-making body of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary group dedicated to bringing about independence to the whole island of Ireland and the end of the Union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. !subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus ? However several later reports said the group continued to hold some arms. She is also a former Croydon Council cabinet member for education, a post she resigned after controversy due to being a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. const domain = '.independent.ie'; Harriss comments were simple and brief but they have been interpreted in vastly different ways by Sinn Fins opponents and supporters. Bloody Sundays Scapegoat Gerald Donaghey(17), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Danny The Red) and the Battle ofBogside, Irelands Future Chairperson, Frances Black, and the IRALeadership, The GAA and The IRA An Irish LoveStory, Tom Collins, Film Director, IRAVolunteer, Open Letter to Joe Brolly re the IRA Claudy BombingsAtrocity, The Museum of Free Derrys Fraud & DeceitAllegations, Robin Percival The Englishman Who Colonized BloodySunday. vars.article.wallVisible = ! return { }; Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers: "The Provisional IRA of The Troubles is well beyond recall". At the General Army Convention in May 2005, The Sunday Times reported that the following changes were made to the IRA Army Council:[6], The Sunday Times reported in July 2005 that security sources believed that the current Army Council consisted of:[7]. const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); The Independent Monitoring Commission declared in 2008 that the council was "no longer operational or functional," but that it had not dissolved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, observer.observe(document, { It is said to have ended in 1981 after an order from the IRA's governing Army Council. const flipPayJsUrl = 'https://cdn.flip-pay.com/clients/inm/flip-pay.js'; The secretive nature of the Provisional IRA means membership figures cannot be accurately known, however, the group is believed to have grown from a few dozen in early 1970 to more than 1,000 by 1972. Robinson 'names' IRA Army council members Dominic Cunningham May 09 2001 12:11 AM THREE prominent Sinn Fein members of the Stormont Assembly, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, were. URL: https://alphahistory.com/northernireland/provisional-ira/ try { vars.category.regionals = selectedRegional || ''; Some have accused him of interference in the process of government formation, others of simply reheating out-of-date intelligence. In a statement, the DUP said: "This report largely confirms the assessment of the chief constable, in August, when he indicated that IRA structures existed and that members and former members had been involved in illegal activity though not sanctioned by the leadership who he stated were wedded to the peace process. Turning to Gerry Adams, it was quite clear that Lever shares the general hatred of the man so evident in Britains governing circles., Lever drew Smalls attention to an article in a UK media publication that week. 13) Bury the truth of the atrocious horror of its Human Rights atrocities behind a hypocritical campaign of legal cases in the very courts of British Justice whose judges and lawyers it previously murdered. The other members are Martin McGuinness, Gerard Adams, Martin Ferris, Patrick Doherty and Brian Gillen,\u0026amp;quot; Mr Robinson alleged.\u0026amp;quot;The headquarters staff: the Quartermaster, Kevin Agnew; Adjutant General, Martin Lynch; Engineering Department, Bernard Fox; Director of Education, James Monaghan; Director of Finances, Patrick Thompson; Operations Officer, Sean Hughes; Director of Intelligence, Robert Story; Internal Security, Patrick Murphy and Kevin McBride,\u0026amp;quot; the DUP MP said.Mr Robinson described Mr McGuinness as \u0026amp;quot;the Bogside Butcher\u0026amp;quot; and alleged that as a \u0026amp;quot;trigger man\u0026amp;quot; he was responsible for the deaths of 12 soldiers.Mr Robinson said Mr McGuinness was Chief-of-Staff of the IRA between 1978 and 1982 when republicans under his command murdered 327 people.The East Belfast MP said he was demanding an enquiry into the activities of the IRA \u0026amp;quot;during the time the minister of education was in command\u0026amp;quot;.Mr McGuinness was absent from the chamber for most of the two-hour debate.Mr Adams told the House that Mr McGuinness had stated clearly earlier in the day he was no longer a member of the IRA and claimed the debate was more about the ongoing battle within unionism.He asked unionists was the debate which he described as an awful racist, sectarian, anti-Catholic bile not about having \u0026amp;quot;an uppity Fenian\u0026amp;quot; about the place?The motion failed by 45 votes to 31. [38] The PSNI said its analysis of the link between the IRA and Sinn Fin remains the same as that laid out in a joint assessment conducted with MI5 in 2015. }; 7) Send many thousands of young people to prison for decades for atrocious Human Rights atrocities. Ms Villiers said while the security assessment states that Provisional IRA members believe that the 'army council' oversees both the IRA and Sinn Fin with an overarching strategy, it judges this has a "wholly political focus". 10) Call this ignominious end of its campaign of terror a victory. The Provisional IRA obtain most of its money and weapons abroad, particularly the Republic and the United States. 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Accessed December 18, 2015. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/inside/org.html, Irish Republican Army. Federation of American Scientists. }; return 'premium'; const eventType = event.detail.event_type; return { if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { No, not one For a discussion of the IRAs failure to repent any of its crimes, see here. So wasnt he basically just agreeing with himself on Friday? IRA propaganda chiefs developed material for American audiences that played on anti-British sentiment and Republican political ideas while avoiding the IRAs links with socialism. Seamus Clarke, member of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade; was sentenced to life for his role in the 1975, Terence "Cleaky" Clarke (died 13 June 2000), older brother of Seamus; acted as a body guard to Gerry Adams; was imprisoned for seven years after being convicted of assaulting, Seamus Finucance - senior IRA member and one of those alleged to have forced, Sean McIlvenna (1951-1984), killed by Loyalists, Michael O'Neill, Limerick man convicted of the manslaughter of Garda, Jeremiah Sheehy, Limerick man convicted of the manslaughter of Garda. (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': Michael Collins (1890-1922), Director of Intelligence for the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and served as Commander-In-Chief of the Irish National Army Andy Cooney (d. 1968), a member of the Third Battalion of the Dublin Brigade and a suspected participant in the execution of the Cairo Gang The IRA Green Book: the enemy (1977) 1) Where the Civil Rights' movement and the Social Democratic and Labour Party successfully represented Northern Nationalists in the early 1970s, introduce an unwanted campaign of terrorism largely fought by teenagers and young persons. Its members frequently harked back to the Easter Rising and the very first IRA. }); The Provisional IRA's Army Council is still in existence and is secretly gathering intelligence, according to a leaked security services' assessment from the summer. const subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; // Stop listening for mutations once we know this listener has been registered. }; Did a single Sinn Finer - feminist, radical, would-be democrat - oppose Storey's diktat? Paul Lever, a senior diplomat with responsibility for security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office at Downing Street, also said that three of the seven-member army council, particularly Thomas Slab Murphy, expressed reservations about bringing the campaign of violence to a halt. for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { Sinn Fin leader Gerry Adams was a member of the IRA army council at the time it announced its historic ceasefire in August 1994, according to a senior adviser to the British government on. 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One is left with the suspicion that the article itself, as well as some of its content, was officially inspired.. "Does somebody think the people in the army council have different fingerprints than the people who are in the leadership of Sinn Fein? vars.user.userID = subscriberCookie.userID || ''; The IRA's ruling body, the 'army council' still exists, but has a "wholly political focus", the Northern Ireland secretary has said. THREE prominent Sinn Fein members of the Stormont Assembly, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, were named in the House of Commons yesterday as members of the IRA's ruling Army Council. })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); It was declared the army of the Irish Republic by the Assembly of Ireland in 1919. According to former Provisional IRA member Anthony McIntyre, "Gerry Adams's position on the army council remained for the most part secure, up until 2005 when the IRA announced an end to its war". Brothel Keeper Ist Class. The day-to-day operations of the IRA are conducted by a seven-person Army Council, which includes the chief of staff, the adjutant general, and the quartermaster general. In previously declassified papers, a former priest in Adams's Ballymurphy neighbourhood said the Sinn Fin leader was "at most No 3" on the IRA army council but his influence on it was "declining" by 1987. 2008 " " . According to NORAID its collected funds were used to support the families of dead and interned Republican volunteers. Campbell, Joseph and Eilan N Chuilleanin. The vast majority are based in Northern Ireland, however, there are operational cells located in other parts of the UK. Born in London as John Stephenson, he served with the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II, then joined Sinn Fein and the IRA after the war. The Continuity IRA broke from the Provisional IRA in 1986, with the Real IRA following in 1997. [4] The three men issued a statement the next day denying the charge. // Push initial dataLayer values into object. "It indicates the Chief of Staff is Thomas Murphy, the Assistant Chief is Brian Keenan. "The headquarters staff: the Quartermaster, Kevin Agnew; Adjutant General, Martin Lynch; Engineering Department, Bernard Fox; Director of Education, James Monaghan; Director of Finances, Patrick Thompson; Operations Officer, Sean Hughes; Director of Intelligence, Robert Story; Internal Security, Patrick Murphy and Kevin McBride," the DUP MP said. 3) Engage in a tit-for-tat sectarian murder campaign targeting largely innocent Protestants, often hiding behind the names of non-existent groups. if (eventType === 'access_resolved' || eventType === 'access_resolved ') { 'none' : 'registration'; subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, The IRA Green Book: guerrilla strategy (1977) Read about our approach to external linking. The reality is that we now live in a peaceful dispensation, the war is over, the IRA has gone away and democracy is the order of the day and theres no dispute around that, party president Mary Lou McDonald said on Friday. if (window.GTMLoaded === true) { In charge of the IRAs many rings of prostitutes. Mr Adams told the House that Mr McGuinness had stated clearly earlier in the day he was no longer a member of the IRA and claimed the debate was more about the ongoing battle within unionism. Donations were funnelled through groups masquerading as charities. Specifically, the IRA sought to use armed force to undermine British rule in Ireland and achieve the strategic objective of an independent republic with the political assistance of Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party. Provisional IRA propaganda harked back to the 1916 Easter Rising and the first IRA. It developed strategy and propaganda to attract new recruits, obtain weapons and generate funding. Speaking in the House of Commons, she said the assessment showed the IRA and other main paramilitary groups that operated during the Troubles still existed. Lever told Small that many people in Britain were perplexed at the sight of US senator Ted Kennedy, who lost two brothers to violence, going to Boston airport to greet Adams. Provisional IRA operatives targeted sympathisers abroad, particularly in the Republic of Ireland and the United States, where Irish expatriates and Republican sympathisers could be found. let cookieValue = parts.join('='); userID: '', The group was led by chief of staff . } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { Frustrated with the IRA's failure to defend Catholic communities, they gathered to form a Provisional Army Council. The IRAs criminal activities are thought to generate millions of dollars of funding each year. Answer: They go upwards in achievement. } In 2005, the Independent Monitoring Commission on Decommissioning said, based on Irish and UK government estimates, the IRA had disposed of all its weapons. The IRA leadership's immaturity . const domain = '.independent.ie'; The Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA, or rIRA) was formed in 1997 as a splinter group of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). The Provisional IRA was younger, tougher and advocated a more intensive military campaign against the British administration. Here was an unashamed and unelected leading IRA man instructing elected Sinn Fin members about the IRA Army Council's requirements on how to fend off Maria Cahill's complaints about being raped and abused by an IRA member. const getSubscriptionStatus = function (purchase) { A policy of lies and intimidation appears to have run in parallel with the policy of disappearing people. It concluded that the IRA still has access to some weapons, but have not sought to procure more since at least 2011. return; } What exactly does the latest assessment say? item_group_code: "pfc_indo", Neil Smith, convicted of IRA membership in 2012, was one of five men arrested after garda stopped a cars near Dundalk, Co Louth, on August 8, 2010. It also said that IRA members believe the Army Council oversees both the IRA and Sinn Fin. Over the weeks that followed, dozens of IRA members gravitated . In its formative months, the Provisional IRAs effectiveness was blunted by one critical problem: a lack of weapons. February 1996:The IRA carried out a major bomb attack at Canary Wharf in London, which ended a 17-month ceasefire and killed two people. The report was compiled by the police and the security service, MI5. She added that some individual IRA members remain involved in criminal activity, such as large scale smuggling. Another one or two may have had reservations although they too went along with the decision.. Mr Robinson said a security document sent to his house identified the army council as chief of staff Thomas Murphy, assistant chief of staff Brian Keenan, Martin McGuinness, Gerry Adams, Sinn. window.loadGTM(); 14) Hide behind the skirts of Sinn Fin and put on the makeup of peacemakers, aided by the three governments who awarded it immunity from prosecution for ending its campaign. {"gigya.api.key":"4_CO8231Ix1RbYi2EmMbsrlw","gigya.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.mobile.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.authFlow.redirect":"true","gigya.check.enabled":"true","gigya.check.host":"gigya-check.independent.ie","competitions.submit.endpoint":"https://competitions-api.independent.ie/entries","competitions.api.key":"0b15feaa-62b2-45a2-8244-723a9e80748e","subscriptionwall.cookie-domain":".independent.ie","subscriptionwall.metered.missing.fields":"data.occupation,data.phone,data.salutation,data.yearofbirth,profile.firstName,profile.lastName","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.home-delivery":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium-plus":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium-plus/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/","kaching.enabled":"true","outbrain.kaching.enabled":"true","quantcast.enabled":"false","didomi.enabled":"true","newsletter.subscribe_url":"https://member.independent.ie/quicksubscribe/IN:Daily/subscribe","social-embed-consent-wall.enabled":"true","homepage.regional.sections.mapping":"Cork:regionals/corkman/:corkman,Dublin:regionals/dublin/:dublin,Kerry:regionals/kerryman/:kerryman,Louth:regionals/louth/:louth,Sligo:regionals/sligochampion/:sligochampion,Wexford:regionals/wexford/:wexford,Wicklow:regionals/wicklow/:wicklow","active_cmp":"didomi"} {"url":"https://shared.mediahuis.be/ka-ching/independent/ka-ching.umd.js?20210830","adunit":"m.independent.ie/Irish_News","targeting":{"art_id":"26086260","article_id":"26086260","kw":["Robinson","names","IRA","","Army","council","members"],"gs_channels":["gs_notprocessed"],"article_type":"standard"},"platform":"MOB","pageType":"Article","lazyload":true} {"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Robinson \u0026#039;names\u0026#039; IRA Army council members","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Independent.ie","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://m.independent.ie/theme/_base/"},"@id":"independent.ie"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.independent.ie/theme/amp/images/0bafced9f7194fe484475000f0550f64.jpg","height":"700","width":"1240"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.independent.ie/"},"dateCreated":"2007-05-10T09:02:59.000Z","dateModified":"2012-11-24T07:05:18.000Z","datePublished":"2001-05-08T23:11:00.000Z","keywords":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://www.independent.ie/theme/amp/images/0bafced9f7194fe484475000f0550f64.jpg","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dominic Cunningham"},"description":"THREE prominent Sinn Fein members of the Stormont Assembly, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, were named in the House of Commons yesterday as members of the IRA\u0026#039;s ruling Army Council. return { "Provisionals' ruling body, the army council, has not dissolved", https://books.google.com/books?id=FDa8AAAAIAAJ, https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,3604,1418906,00.html, "Pressure mounts on Sinn Fin as IRA men convicted", https://www.theguardian.com/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1419862,00.html, http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1592812,00.html, "De Chastelain extends stay to await IRA move", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1706378,00.html, "Key members quit Sinn Fin over controls", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2372287,00.html, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1442540,00.html, "Irish minister says Adams is an IRA leader", "We are not IRA members, Sinn Fin leaders insist", http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0903/northpolitics.html, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2014, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Brian Arthurs and Sean Murray were named as possible replacements for, A Dublin man who cannot be named for legal reasons. 2023 BBC. Photograph: Peter J Jordan/PA Photo. Decision-making body of the Provisional IRA, Offences Against the State Acts passed between 1939 and 1998, Assessment on Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army. Mac Stofin was himself an unlikely Irish Republican. const getBundleValue = function (purchase, purchaseType) { Henry McDonald Official IRA Terrorist, Workers PartyAgent? Sunday 27 December 2020 01:37, UK A mural in west Belfast supporting the IRA, but by 1990 the organisation was under extreme pressure from the British military Why you can trust Sky News He is also close to Brian Keenan and Brian Gillen, whom security sources say are members of the IRA army council along with Mr Adams. The IRA movement unfit to govern in the Republic of Ireland. }; Ruairi OBradaighs family were so staunchly Republican that he was given the middle names Roger Casement; OBradaigh had been an IRA leader in the 1950s while working as an Irish language teacher and abstentionist politician. By which he presumably meant that it was sympathetic to the British point of view, observed Small. [4] The three men issued a statement the next day denying the charge.[5]. On 27 July 2005, McDowell expressed his belief that Adams, McGuinness, and Ferris had recently (within the previous few days) left the IRA Army Council. return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 , . Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? 7 , . bundle: bundleValue, Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). Most of the groups weapons also remained under the control of the Official IRA. Kenneth Lennon, IRA murder victim His case became a cause clbre in the 1970s with many left-wing groups openly claiming that the Special Branch had shot Lennon. On 27 July 2005, McDowell expressed his belief that Adams, McGuinness, and Ferris had recently (within the previous few days) left the IRA Army Council. 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