Search for ira speaker:Patrick O'Donovan (KildareStreet.com)

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022): Patrick O'Donovan: Was Gerry Adams in the IRA?
Defence Forces: Motion (4 Apr 2017): Patrick O'Donovan: ...Not to spare the opposition entirely, I note the presence of the Sinn Féin spokesperson on defence. I welcome Sinn Féin's Pauline conversion also. It was not so long ago that Sinn Féin and its colleagues in the IRA viewed the members of the Defence Forces as traitors. I am not sure whether Sinn Féin still recognises the Defence Forces. Its representative might take...
Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017): Patrick O'Donovan: ...made it to Achill Island but thanks to an organisation - Sinn Féin's sister organisation - six gardaí were put in early graves. One of them, Seamus Quaid who was from my constituency, was murdered by the IRA in Wexford. A woman was left widowed with a young family to be brought up. In my constituency Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was murdered by the IRA. For doing what? He...

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