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looked down on the city he bombed. He pointed to a car hire firm, owned =
by a wealthy unionist businessman in the 1970s, and one of the IRA's =
prime commercial targets.=20

"We bombed that place so many times, yet he kept re-opening it. I =
respected him for not giving up," said Hughes. In the end, Hughes' heart =
was broken by the belief that the leadership of the movement he served =
for three decades had given up the goals he still cherished.=20

Visiting the former Belfast Brigade OC in the tiny, threadbare flat =
where he spent his last years was always an emotional experience. The =
war, and the peace, had left him with indelible physical and mental =
scars. A slight figure in a Che Guevara t-shirt, he chain-smoked and =
drank to ease the pain of what he called "the sell-out", but it never =
really worked.=20

As I'd leave his flat, he'd hand me pages of thoughts he'd scribbled =
down on Sinn F=E9in, poverty in republican areas, the Middle East =
conflict, and Catholic Church child abuse scandals. An atheist, he =
wanted the Church - not the IRA - disbanded.=20

Full at:

http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/Sunday_Tribune/arts2008/feb24_Hughes_lif=
e_dedicated_to_IRA__SBreen.php

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