David Roy speaks to US journalist Ali Watkins about her book The Next One is For You, which reveals how IRA weapons made their way from suburban Philadelphia to the north at the height of the Troubles ...

“The origin of these weapons would be indicative of importation for the Provisional IRA back in the 1970s and 1980s,” counsel said. “Latterly it was Soviet Union and Middle Eastern, we have ...

An arsenal of weaponry found in a south Armagh bunker was probably imported on behalf of the Provisional IRA decades ago, the High Court heard today. Lawyers for a father and son accused of having ...

By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and ...

Prison officer Brian Stack was murdered at the height of the Troubles. The State has never apologised for the failures in ...

The IRA’s guerilla fighters needed more and better weapons. And the Irish in America ... the IRA from three thousand miles away … the Provisional IRA had an impressively robust American ...

An unapologetic Irish-American supporter of the IRA who was once banned from the UK has taken part in talks with the Secretary of State in Washington. Former Noraid publicity director Martin ...

The gun was incorporated into the PIRA’s twin-track “Armalite and ballot box” strategy, a phrase coined by leading Provisional Republican, Danny Morrison. So, what was it about the AR-18 ...

The AR-18 entered the initial design phase in 1963 and was produced from 1969 to 1985, with 1,171 total specimens built.

Senior Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has defended his attendance at the funeral of former Provisional IRA member Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, saying “people have the right to remember their dead”.