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Fri 11 Nov 2008Ex-IRA member tells US court of attack fears
A FORMER IRA member, who escaped from the Maze Prison in 1983 and who is now fighting efforts to deport him from the United States, yesterday told a Texas court that he would be attacked if he was sent back to Ireland.
Pól Brennan (55), was arrested by border guards in south Texas in January and has been in detention there since and state authorities now want to deport him - but to the Republic, and not Northern Ireland.
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