IAIS: PRISONERS RELEASED IN REPUBLIC
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News from the Irish American Information Service
26 September 1997
email: gkennedy@iais.org

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PRISONERS RELEASED IN REPUBLIC
 09/26/97 12:07 EST

 Five IRA prisoners were freed from jail in the Irish Republic today
 as part of the Dublin government's response to the group's continuing
 ceasefire. The move followed the early release of two other IRA men
 last month in the high security Portlaoise prison in County Laois.

 All the latest group to be freed were sentenced to jail until August
 next year. The five were named as Kieran McFadden, Dermot McFarland,
 Michael McLaughlin, Paul Rodgers and Patrick Villa. They were all
 jailed for terms of up to six years for arms and explosives offences.

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