From: The Independent.ie | Comment
Contradictions between police chiefs on both sides of the Border brings into question levels of intelligence-sharing, writes Jim Cusack
The Government now seems set to ‘accept’ that the Provisional IRA has no ‘military structure’, so has no ‘army council’, no active armed element and no alternative illegal exchequer to finance its revolutionary political objectives.
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At the start of this year, a Spanish police operation was reported to have smashed a massive cigarette-smuggling operation involving Provisional IRA figures. Spanish police seized properties valued at over €10m and cash in bank deposits of a similar amount.
