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FIANNA FAIL MONEY CLAIM

Red Weekly No. 22, 12 October 1973 · p. 8 of the scan · 223 words

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Cathal Goulding a leading member of the Official Republican Movement, was the contact man who took back to Dublin every penny of Fianna Fail money which was transferred to the IRA.

This claim was made by Brendan Magill, National Organiser of the (Provisional) Republican Movement in Britain, at a Sinn Feir rally in Birmingham lust Sunday. Referring to an interview in the Irish language paper Complar reproduced in thie previous day's frisk Press, in which Goulding made a biller actack on the Provisionals, Magill said. Let you that every penny of Franna Fail money which was collected for the IRA was handed over in my house in London to Cathal Goulding. Since the split in the Republican Movement in 1970. Officials have consistently claimed that the Provisionals came into existence as a result of payments made by Fianna Fail. Magill's statement is the first direct refutation of that charge to have been made by anyone connectod with the Provisional Republicans.

Magill also attacked the Officials over the death of Staff Captain Jun Bryson, of the Provisional IRA. He said: Jim Bryson and his comrades were shot by British Troops, but those troops were tiring from the Official Republican Club, and they had been in the club tor two days. Nobody from the NEF (Officials) passed on the word to Juri Bryson:

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