From: Irish Times
In February this year, following media reports of IRA fuel and cigarette smuggling, Sinn Fein TD Padraig MacLochlainn wrote to newly-appointed Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan for her assessment of the allegations.
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The danger of the IRA’s money is rarely ranked above the health and safety problems of amassing it – toxic waste from fuel laundering, poison from counterfeit cigarettes and so on. This is a laughably superficial focus.
