[tom8517]

they laid Bobby Storey to rest last week. He shunned the spotlight, unlike Adams, or even Mcguiness. But Storey was a giant in the republican movement. He was interned without trial as a teen ager, then spent most of the rest of his life in British goals. Give a long sentence in 1981 for a gun attack on a British patrol, he along with Gerry Kelly plotted the mass breakout from Long Kesh. Eventually he became the IRA director of intelligence. After the cease fire, he was equally ruthless with those volunteers who opposed it. Never proved, but widely believed he masterminded the great Northern bank robbery. If true, he holds the distinction of planning both the largest prison break and robbery in British as a well as Irish history.

Although he did support the peace process in his later years, Storey was a pure warrior. Vaya con Dios big Bobby.