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Convicted Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt rejected claims that he was given the intelligence on the two senior Royal Ulster Constabulary members during a garda raid on his home in Co.
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It was alleged in subsequent years that a policeman serving in the Irish Republic had leaked details of their movements to the IRA.At the time McKevitt was close to those behind the attack - he is serving a 20-year sentence for directing the Real IRA and is currently held at Portlaoise prison.
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“Don't bother me with your blather,” Master says, delivering a slap to McKevitt's ear.
schoolyard soccer James Claffey 2011
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Analysis suggests that the explosives material being used by dissidents may have originated from a onetime Provisional IRA stockpile whose whereabouts were known by former quartermaster general Michael McKevitt – who formed the Real IRA.Police in Northern Ireland said yesterday that fresh violence was expected.
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McKevitt was the Provisional IRA's so-called 'quartermaster' until the late 1990s during which he was in charge of its guns, explosives and ammunition dumps.
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McKevitt asks whether they have pennies or cents in Japan.
schoolyard soccer James Claffey 2011
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McKevitt was being questioned at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin during a hearing of the Smitwick Tribunal which is investigating allegations of IRA-Garda collusion in the murders of Bob Buchanan and Harry Breen.
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I think Posner dealt with them very clearly in McKevitt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Questionable Taking in Milwaukee: 2009
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I think Posner dealt with them very clearly in McKevitt.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Questionable Taking in Milwaukee: 2009
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McKevitt reportedly denied involvement in the bombing to a local parish priest, Father Desmond Campbell -- and then vanished.
Bombing Backlash 2008
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