Kevin Myers’s collusion article helped ‘reignite debate’
‘An Irishman’s Diary’ from March 2000 receives both criticism and praise in Smithwick report
The scene of the shooting in March 1989 of RUC officers Bob Buchanan and Harry Breen on the south Armagh border. Photograph: Pacemaker
‘An Irishman’s Diary’, written by Kevin Myers and published by The Irish Times on March 10th, 2000, helped “reignite” a debate about a Garda mole within Dundalk Garda station who was helping the IRA, Judge Peter Smithwick reported.
He said Mr Myers based his diary on a book published a year earlier by Toby Harnden and also on the evidence of two unnamed sources, one of whom was a former paramilitary.