“did not publicise it, but the helicopter fiend was…”
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Unfree Citizen1974The Southern state and its partiesThe Southern state and its parties
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did not publicise it, but the helicopter fiend was confident as ever. ; ISATIONS WERE UNLOADED IN DUBLIN (!) The saga of the reknowned Patrick Sarsfield Donegan, gun-crazy Minister for Defence of the British-controlied 26 Ces. of Ireland, continues with yet another episode in a dark, wet, cold and damp Irish port. This time the scene was Cork where the Monasterboice publican, still smarting from his emberrassment last March when he ‘Parsonally soopervised’ the searching of a couple of freight boats for illegal arms, and instead found a consignment for his own army, arrived on the scene dressed in the blue cloth of the Garda Siochana. The search of the coaster ‘Jen Funck’ was subtle. The government information services Anyway, to make a short story long, the boul’ Patrick Sarsfield had to return to his £20,000 labourer’s cottage near Drogheda feeling an even bigger eegit than he did last... March. Ys indeed, Donegan, Cooney, and Cosgrave had once again well and truely ‘Funck-ed’ it! And 26 Co. collaboration had taken yet another drunken step into ridicule. MEANWHILE IT 1S RUMOURED THAT WHILE THE BATMAN AND THE COCKROACH WERE GOING THROUGH A HUNDRED TONS OF SOYA MEAL WITH A TEA STRAINER IN CORK, THIRTY SEVEN CHIEFTAN TANKS FOR ILLEGAL ORGAN| The Hunt Commission which investigated i the RUC behaviour in 1969 confessed g to be ‘shocked and horrified’ that a police force could be equipped with armoured cars. Paragraph 114 of the report said “the armoured cars now in use should cease to be part of police equipment’. That referred to the Shoreland armoured cars manufactured in the Loyalist-controlled SHORT BROS. AND HARLAND engineering firm in East Belfast.
But the RUC were reissued with them in January of this year, and only last week it was quietly announced the the RUC are now issued with British two-ton ‘PIGS’
— vehicles which are used at the moment
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2 BRITISH WITHDRAWL... OR JUST A COAT OF PAINT ?