Aug 1, 2022
In 1970 several high ranking politicians in the Republic of Ireland were implicated in an Arms importation plot to help out Nationalists in Derry and Belfast
Charles Haughey met with the IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding. Garda Special Branch informed the Minister for Justice Mícheál Ó Móráin of this meeting and he reported it to the Cabinet, but Haughey dismissed it as a chance encounter. In November 1969, a Belfast republican leader incidentally named John Kelly, and Haughey's brother Jock, travelled to London to purchase arms, but Kelly became suspicious that their plot had been discovered and they returned to Ireland.
