John Crawley
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Apr
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You need the motivation.
In the early 80s, the IRA certainly had that.
Look at the hunger strikers and things like that.
Highly motivated organization.
We were lacking in skill, but we could provide the skill.
But capacity was the most glaring shortfall, the weaponry that we needed to pursue the struggle.
By the mid-80s, we had the capacity.
And it's around that time that...
the IRA seemed to pull back from the brink, so to speak.
It started putting up peace feelers.
You know, when I felt that we had the capacity, well, I was in jail anyway.
I was hearing a lot of the stuff in jail.
But, you know, when we finally had the capacity maybe to push things to where we could get to the negotiating table with the Irish Republic on the negotiating table instead of, when I say the Irish Republic, I mean the 32 county, all Ireland democracy.
No, I knew we were set up straight away because they were waiting on us.
So we were clearly set up.
But I had no idea who at the time, you know.
So, you know, many Irish Republican projects in history, you know, since 1798, back to the Fenian times, throughout our history, it almost always seems to be scuppered by informers.
I mean, the British are extremely, are really good at infiltrating organizations and getting in there.
I mean, you know, the British state, you know, they're the fifth, sixth largest economy in the world.
They have unlimited resources, enough money to buy almost anybody.
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