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Wed 12 Dec 2008Free State account of controversial Kerry IRA deaths in 1923 contradicted by Garda report
CIVIL WAR PAPERS:DOCUMENTS MADE available by the Department of Justice through the National Archives give a fresh perspective on a controversial episode in Kerry during the Civil War in which five anti-Treaty republicans died and which involved a hitherto unknown National Army squad called "The Visiting Committee".
Evidence is available, in a file opened to the public more than eight decades later, that the account of the incident given by the soldiers involved was flatly contradicted by the Garda Síochána at the time.
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