Escaper feted by Republicans
NZPA Belfast One of eight Irjsh Republican Army prisoners who shot their way out of Belfast's Crumlin Road jail earlier this month, turned up in the Irish Republic at the weekend ... signing autographs for wellwishers. Paul McGee, who is on the run from a 20 year sentence for arms offences, attended a Republican commemoration ceremony in County Kildare. He was at the Bodenstown graveside of eighteenth-cen-tury Irish revolutionary, Wolfe Tone, during an annual Provisional I.R.A. tribute. A large group of Irish
police were on duty outside the graveyard, but after signing autographs McGee left the scene apparently unnoticed. Last week, the I.R.A-. said that all eight men who escaped from jail on June 11 were “out of British jurisdiction.” McGee was sentenced in his absence after the breakout to 20 years for possessing weapons used in an attack in, Belfast last year in which a policeman died. Nothing had been seen of any of the missing prisoners, four of whom were given life sentences for killing a British S.A.S. officer.
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Press, 23 June 1981, Page 8
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