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A top secret British Army document shows an IRA killer who slaughtered 10 Protestants at Kingsmill could have been arrested months later when he was injured in a gun battle.

The report given to the Sunday World reveals how the RUC and British Army knew the IRA murderer was being treated in Louth county hospital in Dundalk but made no attempt to have him arrested and extradited.

The failure to bring the Provo to justice has led to suspicions that the man – who has never been prosecuted despite extensive paramilitary involvement – was a British agent.

The killer can’t be named for legal reasons. ‘P’ is from the south Armagh village of Belleek but now lives in the Republic.

The Kingsmill families want the Irish government to allow the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) to question him. The HET currently have no authority to arrest or interview suspects living across the border.

The south Armagh man escaped after a gun battle with British paratroopers in which three other IRA members, including legendary republican Raymond McCreesh who would later die on hunger-strike, were captured.

‘P’ was shot and wounded when the paras opened fire on an IRA unit near the Mountain House inn on the Newry-Newtownhamilton Road on June 25 1976. He was struck by three bullets in the leg, arm and chest but managed to crawl away.

He was then ferried across the border and treated at Louth hospital hours later.

A Royal Military Police document dated August 19 1976 reveals that both the RUC and British Army knew he was there but failed to contact gardai to have him arrested.

Four guns were recaptured by the security forces after the gun battle with the IRA, including two which had been used in the infamous Kingsmill massacre five months earlier.

Ten Protestant workers were taken from their minibus in January 1976 and brutally slain by the side of the road.

They were lined up beside their van and shot from two feet. Some fell on top of each other. Then ‘P’, one of the 12 gunmen, walked round the dying men and shot each of them again in the head as they lay on the ground.

Willie Frazer, director of IRA victims group FAIR – who is organising a controversial march through south Armagh to commemorate Kingsmill next weekend, said the security forces were guilty of grave negligence.

“This man did one of the coldest, cruellest things imaginable. He walked over and coolly finished off dying men who were lying in pools of their own blood.” Frazer said.

“Five months later, there was the perfect opportunity to have him arrested when he lay in a hospital bed a few miles across the Border. But neither the police nor the army bothered.

“It must be asked why this IRA man is a protected species. He carried out one of the most heinous acts during the conflict but has never even been interviewed about it.

“Today he walks the streets a free man while the families of the dead are still grieving and are tortured with horrible thoughts of the last moments of their loved ones lives.”

Colin Worton, whose 24-year-old brother Kenneth was killed in the atrocity, said he was appalled by the failure to pursue his brother’s murderer.

“The RUC should have asked gardai to arrest and extradite him to Northern Ireland. At the very least, he should have been questioned about Kingsmill. It makes no sense.

“It’s only now we’re realising it was a very dirty war. But the Irish government still has the power to rectify the situation. They must let the HET interview ‘P’ immediately.”

The four IRA men fled after the gun battle with the paras near the Mountain House inn but three were captured hours later. Daniel McGuinness (18) from the south Armagh village of Camlough was found sleeping in a quarry.

Paddy Quinn (24) from Belleek and Raymond McCreesh (19) from Camlough were discovered in a nearby house. According to the secret army document both Quinn and McCreesh allegedly broke the IRA code of secrecy and named ‘P’ to soldiers as the fourth gunman.

All three captured men were later sentenced to 14 years in jail for attempted murder of the paras. McCreesh became the third hunger-striker to die in the 1981 H-Block death fast.

Paddy Quinn also went on hunger-strike but his mother took him off the protest after 47 days when he was close to death.

February 20, 2012
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This article appeared in the February 19, 2012 edition of the Sunday World.

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I’ve been a fan of Mike Stud since I first heard his track “College Humor”. He was a Frat rap guy that could pull some witty punchlines and had a real sick flow. He even pokes fun at people who think that that all he has is punchlines and party music. But then I copped “A Toast To Tommy” and I saw a side to Stud that I liked as much if not more than “Party music Mike”. The track off “A Toast To Tommy” that really caught my eye…or ear? Does a song catch your eye or is it even possible to catch somebody’s ear?

Anyway the song I noticed the most and the one that was my personal favourite was “Sammy’s Shadow”. The track is a slow paced song for Stud and it focuses on this girl called Sammy who Stud just can’t seem to shake off. He fell for her and then lost touch with her over some stupid shit. And the song focuses on his story of how he went from this girl being his world to how he still loves her but can’t bring himself to telling her. The song is slow and has some deep emotion in it.

The video was shot by the same guy who shot “Just Fine”, “Bottle It Up” “On My Way” “Summer Swag” hell the guy directed most of Stud’s videos, Paddy Quinn. The video features Stud going about his day and doing what he does but everywhere he goes he “sees” Sammy. That’s all I’m gonna say, i’ll let you watch it before I say any more. So hit the jump below to check the vid.

I don’t know if Stud actually went through all this or whether this is just some elaborate rap but it’s a nice change for Stud and the slow pace and slightly classical beat make the song different from the usual “different” a lot of frat rappers try to put out. Stud actually pulls off the track and you leave feeling kinda sad for him but happy in another way. It’s difficult to put into words.

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