The Irish gunrunners of Philadelphia who ferried rifles to the IRA
By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and ...
Belfast Telegraph28d
PSNI and MoD being sued over alleged collusion in UVF gun attack which killed three IRA men
Police and the Ministry of Defence are being sued over alleged security force collusion in the loyalist killing of three IRA men ... in connection with a UVF gun attack at Boyle’s Bar in ...
Publishers Weekly16d
The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret Army
The guns began arriving in 1971 ... It wasn’t until the 1990s, when the Philly-to-IRA pipeline dried up, that the IRA moved on to sources in the Middle East and the power of NORAID waned.
phillyvoice.com18d
Philly gun smugglers helped the Irish Republican Army during the Troubles. A new book uncovers their operation.
Watkins had stumbled upon a 1975 federal case involving five Philadelphia-area men accused of running guns to the IRA during the most violent period of the Troubles, the three-decade conflict that ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel12d
A new restaurant is coming to Water Street in downtown Milwaukee
Potato lovers rejoice! A new restaurant centered around loaded baked potatoes is coming to downtown Milwaukee this summer. Loaded Spud is scheduled to open at 789 N. Water St. in June. The 3,486 ...
Daily Mail16d
To neighbors, they were suburban dads. In secret, they were running an international gun smuggling ring
‘This was a bunch of suburban dads,’ says journalist Ali Watkins, whose new book The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army will be published ...
IRA man Colum Marks survived a security force shooting a decade before he was killed by the RUC
An IRA man killed by the RUC was previously shot and injured during a gun battle with the security forces. Colum Marks was ...
Lancashire Evening Post18d
Preston's Spud Bros cause chaos in Manchester with free spuds giveaway
TikTok sensations the Spud Brothers swapped their Preston premises for Manchester for the day and caused quite the stir in the process. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire ...
The incredible true story of the Irish Americans who smuggled the first ArmaLites to the IRA
David Roy speaks to US journalist Ali Watkins about her book The Next One is For You, which reveals how IRA weapons made ...
Irish Daily Mirror15d
Derek Thompson on machine guns, the IRA, Shergar and Cheltenham Festival memories
Tommo' has also found himself in the back of a police car with his 'idol' Michael O'Hehir and in a much more serious incident had balaclava-wearing men aim machine guns at him while he acted as a ...
The Motley Fool15d
6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Deciding Between a Roth vs. Traditional IRA
A Traditional IRA may allow you to take an immediate tax deduction, but a Roth IRA guarantees you won't have to pay taxes on withdrawals in retirement. While there's no income limit associated ...
The Irish Times28d
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and Pearse Doherty among mourners at funeral of former senior IRA member
Thousands of mourners lined the Cliftonville Road in north Belfast for the funeral of ex-senior IRA member Brendan “Bik” McFarlane on Tuesday. A Tricolour was draped over his coffin as The ...