IRA has good historical reasons to be obsessed with spies in the camp

THE IRA has always had members who have been fixated by the thought of spies in their midst.

Sat, 03 Jun, 2006 - 01:00
Ryle Dwyer

These people have been ever ready to believe that anyone was a spy — even Michael Collins.

Such people are ready tools for the dirty tricksters to seed disharmony in IRA ranks.

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