Comic Relief cash given to former IRA bomber

COMIC RELIEF chiefs in Britain were involved in urgent discussions yesterday following revelations that donations were given to an organisation run by a former IRA bomber.

Comic Relief cash given to former IRA bomber

A total of £87,000 was allocated to Tar Isteach, a group set up by Thomas Quigley for Republican ex-prisoners, according to Comic Relief’s annual report which has just been published.

Quigley and Paul Kavanagh carried out a month-long London terror campaign in 1981, including the Chelsea Barracks bomb which killed two passers-by and injured 23 Irish Guards.

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