Although the numbers were much smaller, the most spectacular escape the IRA pulled off was landing a hijacked helicopter in the yard of Mount joy jail in Dublin, scooping up 3 high ranking provos and getting clean away. A story told for years, probably fiction, is that one of the screws asked if it was the new minister of defence arriving, to which one the provos remaining replied, nah, that would be our minister of defence departing.
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