Woman quits job over IRA past

A COUNCIL education chief in England has quit after admitting she worked with the IRA in the 1970s.

Conservative councillor Maria Gatland resigned as a cabinet member on Croydon Council after being exposed as the author of a “kiss and tell” book about the provisionals.

The book described how, among other tasks, she acted as an interpreter for the movement on an arms-buying trip to Europe.