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It was'nt just the US Irish who were funding Sein Fein/IRA. I remember visiting a pub in County Kilburn, North london, at the time of the hunger strikes and seeing money going into an IRA whip round. If you valued your health, it was not a very good idea to refuse to put some money in.

And let us not forget, of course, that Sein Fein/IRA, as a political party, is subject to direct funding from the British taxpayer; I think it was half a million in the last financial year.