IRA criminal activity - Sinn Féin criminality’s first casualty

THERE are lies, damned lies and then there is Sinn Féin propaganda that republicans cannot be involved in criminal activity.

The lie has finally been given to that self-serving brand of duplicity by today’s claim that the IRA is now “perhaps the most sophisticated organised criminal grouping to be found anywhere in Europe, possibly anywhere in the world”.

Significantly, this dramatic assertion is set against the ongoing probe into the multi-million Dublin robbery which gardaí believe was carried out either by criminal gangs, paramilitary subversives, or both.