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Former senior IRA figure Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane dies after short illness
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald paid tribute to Mr McFarlane as "a great patriot who lived his life for the freedom and ...
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Leading IRA figure Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane has died - top figures in Sinn Fein pay tribute to man who helped slaughter five people in the Bayardo Bar attack
Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane had been one of the IRA team behind the Bayardo Bar attack in 1975, when the IRA bombed and shot up the pub on the loyalist Shankill Road in Belfast. According to the book Lost ...
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Senior IRA figure ‘Bik’ McFarlane dies after short illness
Brendan “Bik” McFarlane, known for taking part in the biggest escape in UK prison history, died after a “short illness” on Friday ...
Former senior Provisional IRA figure ‘Bik’ McFarlane dies aged 74
Former senior Provisional IRA member Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane has died at the age of 74 following a short illness. Mr ...
Sinn Féin pays tribute to senior member and former IRA Maze escapee Brendan McFarlane following his death
Former Maze Prison IRA escapee and senior Sinn Féin member Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane has died. Mr McFarlane, who was in his ...
Sunday World8h
Ex-IRA Maze escapee Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane dies aged 74
McFarlane was accused of the kidnapping of supermarket boss Don Tidey after going on the run following the Maze prison escape ...
MI5 ‘tampered with’ the Enniskillen bomb, security source says
A member of MI5 claimed that the spy agency tampered with the IRA’s Enniskillen bomb before it exploded.
Murdered mother-of-three was having an affair with a fellow British agent
A IRA informer killed more than 30 years ago was having an affair with a senior republican who was also working for British ...