US gangsters and Irish republicans: bloody lesson for our law enforcers

JOHN McIntyre was one of life’s misfits who got mixed up with the wrong crowd, became implicated in drugs and gun-running, and ended up being murdered in 1984.

This week, as a result of his murder, his mother and brother were awarded $3.1 million in damages by a court in Boston.

His family argued successfully that an FBI agent had provided the information which allowed his killers to identify him.