The Real IRA in Portugal: 2006

Dissidents ramp up terror

0 comments 8/20/2006 Posted by Winnower

20 August 2006 Sunday Business Post Police in the North have been bracing themselves for an upsurge in dissident republican violence following a series of bomb attacks in recent days....

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CIRA boss 'set up weapons sting'

0 comments 7/02/2006 Posted by Winnower

2 July 2006 The Sunday Life Ciaran McGuigan The man believed to be the leader of the Continuity IRA has been fingered as an agent who set up dissident republicans in an MI5 weapons sting. The man, a Fermanagh-based farmer, is believed to have been one of those arrested last month by cops following up a sting operation involving British intelligence and French agents. As many as 10 people were lifted in raids last month, after...

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Gun-smuggle accused bailed

0 comments 6/29/2006 Posted by Winnower

29 June 2006 The Irish News A Co Armagh woman accused of involvement in a Real IRA gun-smuggling plot was granted High Court bail yesterday. The Crown alleges that Alison Kearns (37), from Tannaghmore Green in Lurgan, discussed weapons smuggling with an undercover agent during an operation mounted by British security staff in the summer of 2004 to target Real IRA members connected to weapons and cigarette smuggling. Appearing...

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Smuggling accused is given bail

0 comments 6/29/2006 Posted by Winnower

29 June 2006 Belfast News Letter A Co Armagh woman accused of being involved in a Real IRA gun smuggling plot was granted High Court bail yesterday. Alison Kearns, a mother-of-two from Tannaghmore Green, Lurgan, appeared in court last week on a charge of inviting an unnamed person to provide weapons with the intent they be used for terrorism. Crown lawyer Charles McKay told the court that in 2004, security staff from the UK...

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Intelligence sting catches alleged Real IRA's number two in arms deal

0 comments 6/26/2006 Posted by Winnower

26 Jun 2006 The Herald The alleged second-in-command of the breakaway terrorist group the Real IRA has been remanded in custody after a joint MI5, French intelligence service and Irish police operation to foil the smuggling of a consignment of weapons and explosives. Paul McCaugherty, 39, from Lurgan, Armagh, is also accused of conspiracy to possess firearms, conspiracy to murder members of the security forces in Northern Ireland...

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Lurgan man in court on Real IRA charges

0 comments 6/26/2006 Posted by Winnower

26 Jun 2006 Irish Times A Co Armagh man appeared before magistrates in Lurgan on Saturday on charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and tried to procure weapons. Paul McCaugherty (39), Beech Court, Lurgan, appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon Magistrates Court. The court was told by a detective chief inspector that Mr McCaugherty made no reply when the six charges were put to him. He was accused...

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Man on Real IRA charge

0 comments 6/26/2006 Posted by Winnower

26 Jun 2006 The Belfast News Letter A 39-YEAR-OLD man appeared before magistrates on Saturday on charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and tried to procure weapons. Paul McCaugherty, 39, from Beech Court in Lurgan, Co Armagh appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon Magistrates Court. The court was told by a detective chief inspector that McCaugherty made no reply when the six charges were put to h...

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Senior Real IRA suspect in court

0 comments 6/25/2006 Posted by Winnower

25 Jun 2006 The Observer Henry McDonald The alleged second-in-command of the Real IRA remains in custody today facing charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and to obtain weapons. Paul McCaugherty, 39, from Beech Court in Lurgan, appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon magistrates' court in Co Armagh yesterday. He was accused of being the deputy head of the Real IRA between 1 December 2005 and 19 June...

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Man in dock on Real IRA charges. Court date for terror suspect

0 comments 6/25/2006 Posted by Winnower

25 Jun 2006 Sunday Mirror Paul Carson A man believed by police to be second in command of the Real IRA appeared in court yesterday charged with terrorist offences. Paul McCaugherty, 39, appeared before magistrates on charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and tried to procure weapons. McCaugherty, from Beech Court in Lurgan, Co Armagh, appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon Magistrates Court. The court...

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MI5 foil Sam missile plot

0 comments 6/25/2006 Posted by Winnower

25 Jun 2006 Martin Breen News of the World Real IRA planned huge terror spree The Real IRA went shopping for surface-to-air missiles to shoot down British army helicopters. The renegade republican faction also tried to buy anti-tank weapons from MI5 agents they thought were international arms dealers. Even though Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt is serving a 20- year jail term in Portlaoise Prison for directing terrorism, security...

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Real IRA bomb plot unmasked

0 comments 6/25/2006 Posted by Winnower

25 June 2006 The Sunday Times Liam Clarke A joint MI5 and Irish police sting operation appears to have thwarted plans by the Real IRA to launch a gun and bomb campaign in Ireland and Britain aimed at derailing the peace process. MI5 officers posed as French arms dealers to uncover what appears to have been the dissidents' plans, obtain their shopping list of weapons and drain them of fund...

Labels: Alison Kearns, Alvor, Dermot Declan Gregory, Dermot Gregory, Desmond Kearns, Desmond Paul Kearns, Informer, MI5, Michael Dermot, Omagh, Paul Anthony John McCaugherty, Paul McCaugherty, Portugal, Real IRA