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Do you know anyone that is/was in the IRA?

  • 10-05-2013 08:22PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28


    AS the title says. I'm talking about people who may Actually have been in the IRA or any one of it's seemingly innumerable factions and splinter groups - not the celtic jersey wearing, tattoo clad clowns you see in pubs who get into arguments and then start spouting that they are or have connections in "de RA" and will get a gun from the boot of their car and blow your shagging head off.

    My personal story is that of a man that used to drink in a local pub (a quiet man in his 60s, not a drunked celtic jersey wearing knuckhead). Story goes that back in the 70s that him and some other fella planted a bomb in a petrol station in south Armagh. They got a call to call off the bombing. But then they decided that after all the trouble they went to organising and planting the bomb that they would just go ahead and blow it up anyway. And they did.

    I've no idea which IRA he was in. It was the 70's, well before the day of the R-IRA, C-IRA or the RC-IRA so it was probably the P-IRA or O-IRA. It gets confusing!!

    Unverifiyable, could be barstool republican bullsh!te but that's the story.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭HondaSami


    You think anyone is going to admit to that on the internet, it's not something you advertise outside the clique.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    Gerry Adams


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


    I cant talk about it, just following orders ya know!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    Hazys wrote: »
    Gerry Adams
    Hasn't he always denied it though? Martin on the other hand....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Beyonce was in the Ra


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Your ma's in the ra.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭armaghbhoy


    The rubberbandits, they're in the RA.

    In seriousness though, you should know the answer to this question

    and I have no comment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭Kinder Bueno


    Paul McGrath


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Your ma's in the ra.

    You are gonna get infracted because of that, just to shut you up.

    Its a cover up. She really must have been.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 The True Puka


    Paul McGrath

    Ooh Aah up de RA. Ooh Aah up de RA.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Bosco


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,883 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Eric Cantonaah


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭divito06


    Your selling a dead donkey my friend.. .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    So this is what the special branch has come to? Lets just go on boards and ask, see who bites.

    Next week we'll advertise a free boat to any IRA member, collectible at their local Garda station.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    I know a good amount of people who were, my father was friends with someone who was jailed for a while and went on hungerstrike, some young people are proud to have family connections with PIRA which i think is wrong, I remember when I was 13 in school a girl said 'my 2 uncles were in the IRA'

    I think my great-grandfathers brother may have had involvement in the 1910's, his brother died with the British army in WW1 as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭DwightSchrute1


    Do you mean the Old IRA, the Provisional IRA, the Real IRA or the I Can't Believe It's Not The IRA?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I'm talking about people who may Actually have been in the IRA or any one of it's seemingly innumerable factions and splinter groups
    - not the celtic jersey wearing, tattoo clad clowns you see in pubs who get into arguments and then start spouting that they are or have connections in "de RA" and will get a gun from the boot of their car and blow your shagging head off.

    Same thing, really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭Gilbert Grape


    Worked with a man who was one of the most wanted in the early 80's in Derry for shooting security forces,another was caught trying to blow an oil refinery up beside army barracks.The same company had a few other's that were high up in sf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Somewhat of a local in a pub I worked in did time for membership. Absolute dickhead tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    If more people were in it we mightn't be in the shwitt we are now and people could be better off.

    http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/ira.asp


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    my grandfather told me in the early eighties he was out late one evening in brittas bay county wicklow catching birds would you believe and the ira were testing out explosives close to the the beach. boom boom boom lol he didnt catch many birds lol he had an idea who they were too ; )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Hey garda, there's a lad from Belfast called Ian paisley he told my da's ma's brother's cousins twin that he was an active member of the RA.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yep. I also know that 99.99% of the people that tell you down the pub that they were . . . . weren't


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Liz Windsor, known to Sunday World readers by the nickname the Queen. She's in the 'RA!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,952 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    ONeill2013 wrote: »
    I know a good amount of people who were, my father was friends with someone who was jailed for a while and went on hungerstrike, some young people are proud to have family connections with PIRA which i think is wrong, I remember when I was 13 in school a girl said 'my 2 uncles were in the IRA'

    I think my great-grandfathers brother may have had involvement in the 1910's, his brother died with the British army in WW1 as well.

    I've known a few oldtimers who were in the original IRA. So was my granddad although He died just after i was born so I can't really claim to have known him except through stories that were passed down.

    I've known a few people that were members of the IRA in the 80's-90's. But I have no idea how active they were. And like the ones c_man knew, they were dickheads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    HondaSami wrote: »
    You think anyone is going to admit to that on the internet, it's not something you advertise outside the clique.

    Yeah, actual modern day members would never speak freely about it to strangers. The people who tell you they have connections are usually the ones who are full of sh1t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭divito06


    If more people were in it we mightn't be in the shwitt we are now and people could be better off.

    http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/ira.asp

    I totally agree. They should have never decommissioned back im july-sep 05.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Worked with a man who was one of the most wanted in the early 80's in Derry for shooting security forces,another was caught trying to blow an oil refinery up beside army barracks.The same company had a few other's that were high up in sf.
    Great place to build a barracks in case someone didn't have enough explosives to blow it up they built it bedside an oil refinery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Eamon Kilmore.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Uncle was. Didn't do anything big, just delivered guns to people.


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