Provisionals

The Provisionals will be able to act almost with impunity from within the Southern counties on the border, secure in the knowledge that Jack Lynch won't or can't act against them.

From the archive, 1 February 1972: Derry's Bloody Sunday 2012

However, veteran IRA watchers including Ed Moloney, who wrote the definitive history of the Provisionals, A Secret History of the IRA, are not so sure.

Martin McGuinness slumps in the polls as IRA past threatens bid for presidency 2011

If we are to arrest Protestant terrorists who are not chargeable (for the same evidential reasons which lead us to resort to detention rather than prosecution for many Provisionals), then we need to extend our policy.

MoD took softer line on loyalist paramilitaries, secret files reveal Owen Bowcott 2010

Four of the IRA's victims 'bodies have yet to be found despite more than a decade long search for their remains and constant appeals that former members of the Provisionals to yield information as to the whereabouts of the "Disappeared".

Maze prison peace centre gets go-ahead 2010

This group includes veteran Pira bombmakers and assassins who were highly active before the Provisionals' 1994 ceasefire.

Dissident terror group 'behind Belfast grenade attack on policemen' Henry McDonald 2010

The beginning of the peace process, let alone the height of the Troubles, was well before Tory Bear's time, so perhaps he can be forgiven for not appreciating that in the years after the signing of the Downing Street Declaration, there was perhaps no politician in the Republic of Ireland more hostile to Sinn Fein and the Provisionals than Proinsias de Rossa.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

The Stickie denunciations of the Provisionals as 'armed Celtic supporters' and 'Hibernian gunmen' were probably a lot closer to the mark than the imaginary anti-capitalist movement that Louise Minihan believes she resigned from last month.

Archive 2009-08-01 Johnny Guitar 2009

Back in the mid-nineties the Provisionals ditched the bomb and the bullet in favour of the less violent but equally crude bedroom and ballot strategy.

Must try harder Johnny Guitar 2009

I make that assumption because in the rest of your text you are plainly referring to the Provisionals.

Edwards Campaign: "Karl Rove Is Writing Rudy's Script These Days" 2009

The beginning of the peace process, let alone the height of the Troubles, was well before Tory Bear's time, so perhaps he can be forgiven for not appreciating that in the years after the signing of the Downing Street Declaration, there was perhaps no politician in the Republic of Ireland more hostile to Sinn Fein and the Provisionals than Proinsias de Rossa.

Stickies vs Provos 2009