Bobby McKnight
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Bobby McKnight is a former leading member of the Official IRA.[1]
McKnight told the Irish Examiner in August 2009 that there had been contacts been contacts between Irish Government Ministers and the IRA on the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969:
- Belfast man McKnight, who in 1969 was a member of the IRA command staff, states that along with another man he drove to Dublin Airport in September 1969. There he met then minister for finance Charles Haughey’s brother, Jock, and took delivery of several cases of weaponry, which filled his pickup truck, these were then transported to IRA members in Dublin.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Scott Millar, Former IRA member reveals ministers’ role in arms plot, Irish Examiner, 31 August 2009.
- ↑ Scott Millar, Former IRA member reveals ministers’ role in arms plot, Irish Examiner, 31 August 2009.
