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QUINLIVAN IN COURT
11/14/97 12:38 EST

Nessan Quinlivan who escaped from a prison in England was
today described by a senior Garda detective as "an essential
cog in the IRA" during a court hearing in Dublin. Quinlivan
was making an application for release on bail at the Central
Criminal Court. He is accused of imprisoning a Limerick man,
Michael Lyons, last August, but the court was told that
Lyons failed to turn up at the trial and had been paid
=A31,000 not to give evidence.

He was said to be living in fear of his life and had moved
to England. A detective inspector claimed a number of people
were terrified of giving evidence against Quinlivan due to
the "sheer fear of the IRA for which Quinlivan is an
essential cog". Quinlivan escaped from Brixton prison in
London six years ago and was on the run until his arrest in
Tipperary last year. A decision on the bail application will
be made in four weeks time.

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