Sinn Fein is still fighting a war: The News Letter - Alex Kane

Published Date: 29 September 2008 IN February 1962 the IRA issued a statement announcing the end of a border campaign that had been ongoing since 1956: arms were dumped and volunteers ordered to stand down. There was a tacit acceptance in the statement (and in later comments by then chief of staff Cathal Goulding) that the IRA had failed to capture and mobilise the support of the nationalist population. Within... [read full story]