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Back issue: Haughey's treachery

Thursday, April 13, 1989 will go down as another day of shame in the history of the 26-county state as the Fianna Fáil government handed over Paul Kane to the British government at the border of counties Louth and Armagh.

In a massive operation involving many hundreds of British soldiers, RUC members, Dublin government troops and Gardaí, the border was sealed off so that Fianna Fáil could deliver its hostage to the British. The operation was similar to that mounted for the hand-over of Robert Russell in August 1988.

On Tuesday it was announced that both the Fianna Fáil Minister for Justice, Gerry Collins, and the Attorney-General had turned down Paul Kane's final appeal for protection as an Irish citizen and a political refugee. Collins lied that the matter was out of his hands, once again hiding behind the courts and trying to deceive the public into thinking that these decisions were not political ones made by the Fianna Fáil cabinet itself.

An Phoblacht, April 13, 1989


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