Letter: Bid to conceal identity of IRA leadership is futile - the dogs in the street could bark their names at Crufts

A letter from Michael Deasy:

The IRA leaders of the period have been formally and publicly identified in the British Houses of Parliament and on the floor of the Stormont Assemblyplaceholder image
The IRA leaders of the period have been formally and publicly identified in the British Houses of Parliament and on the floor of the Stormont Assembly

The media reports that recent state papers released under the 30 year rule identifying the leadership of the Provisional IRA have now been "withdrawn”.

This Orwellian attempt at what I would call ‘untruthing’ is futile.

The IRA leaders of the period have been formally and publicly identified in the British Houses of Parliament and on the floor of the Stormont Assembly on several occasions.

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The dogs in the street could bark their names at Crufts by now.

In this week of the Stripe Young Scientist Competition, is this a case of ‘error in Drive C: file no longer found’?

Michael Deasy, Bandon, County Cork

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