From: The Irish Times
Gardaí believe IRA no longer exists ‘as a body’ but individuals or groups linked to Provisionals are involved in crime such as fuel laundering
People linked with the Provisional IRA are still involved in criminality in the Republic but not on the same scale as in Northern Ireland, Garda sources have said.
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The letter, sent in February, said: “An Garda Siochána hold no information or intelligence to support the assertion … that ‘the Provisional IRA still maintains its military structure and confines its criminal activities to fuel laundering, cigarette-smuggling and counterfeiting’.”
The letter from Ms O’Sullivan’s office to Mr MacLochlainn also cited a 2009 report from the Independent Monitoring Commission (lMC) which said military departments and other structures of the Provisional IRA had been disbanded and its former terrorist capability lost.
