ABSTRACT
At times the Irish police were tied into RUC radio nets. One of the basic prerequisites for a guerrilla campaign, sanctuary, was being denied the IRA. Cronin went over the raid in detail and the discussion turned on the campaign. In the South, once the Curragh closed for good on March 15, 1959, the IRA seemed preoccupied with the Curragh feuds, which had grown to overpowering proportions in the hot-house atmosphere of the last months of the camp. This had been given him by Chief Superintendent Philip McMahon and hinted that prisoners would be released if the IRA stopped the campaign. A highly vocal group of active service men were sympathetic to the December escape, who insisted that the Curragh was past history and the IRA should get on with the campaign. On January 27, 1961, the campaign made the front pages once again when an IRA attack-team assassinated a RUC man near Roslea in County Fermanagh.
