Mick Clifford: Governor foiled IRA attempt to get Rose Dugdale out of prison while giving birth 

British Heiress Rose Dugdale who was part of a IRA gang which stole 19 painting during an art theft at Russborough House in Wicklow 1974. Dr Dugdale is seen here during a Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in 1991.

A quick-witted prison governor foiled an IRA plan to break one of their members out of prison when she was giving birth, a new book reveals. 

The plan involved a rescue operation at a maternity hospital in Limerick where the pregnant prisoner was expected to give birth but the governor foiled the plot.