Irish Echo Editorial: The heist, the IRA, and Sinn Fein

But the recent charge that the IRA was responsible for last month’s Northern Bank heist, and the astonishing statement by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that he believes Sinn Fein leaders knew about it beforehand, have got to have them feeling bewildered.
This was, of course, no ordinary robbery — you know, the type designed to pad out the widows and orphans fund of one paramilitary group or another. The take was a staggering