EIRE: McCaughey's Doom

In Dublin last week tough, handsome Sean McCaughey, 28, who described himself as the Adjutant General of the Irish Republican Army, listened with a faint smile while a military tribunal charged him with kidnapping and assaulting robust Stephen Hayes, onetime I.R.A. officer and County Wexford fooballer. To the hellion I.R.A., the Eire Government is illegal, and so proud Defendant McCaughey refused to plead either innocent or guilty.

Plaintiff Hayes had a brutal tale to tell. In June Defendant McCaughey and three others snatched him from his home, trussed him up with wire, hustled him to an empty County Louth farmhouse....

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