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I know that the organisation led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness would like to murder me. I know that that organisation will go on murdering other people until they are finally defeated. It is my belief that in spite of IRA/Sinn Féin's strategic cunning, and no matter how many people they kill, the people of the Irish Republic expect, because they have been told so by John Hume, that there will be peace. There may come a time when their patience runs out. If that were to happen there would be no place for IRA/Sinn Féin to hide. We must work tirelessly to bring that day forward.
― Sean O'Callaghan


Sean O'Callaghan (10 October 1954 – 23 August 2017) was a paramilitary turned informer in the communist terror group known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army. After becoming disillusioned with the organization due to overhearing a member talking about killing pregnant women, he became a double agent for the Garda Special Branch, and helped to sabotage many carefully planned robberies put together to collect funds for the IRA, usually through a military checkpoint or a Garda appearing at just the right moment to prevent the robbery. Notably, O'Callaghan's information to the Garda led to seven tonnes of AK-47 assault rifles being seized onboard the Valhalla, a fishing boat used to smuggle weapons from America to Ireland.

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