HC Deb 28 November 1972 vol 847 cc108-9W
Mr. Stratton Mills

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information the security forces in Northern Ireland have about special commando-type units of the Irish Republican Army operating against targets in Northern Ireland from bases in the Republic; and in what areas these attacks and bases are concentrated.

Mr. Amery

Attacks have taken place along the length of the border, but the areas of Northern Ireland on which attacks have been concentrated are those near to the Castlefin-Lifford area in Donegal, the Monaghan salient and County Louth north of Dundalk. As to the IRA dispositions south of the border, I have nothing to add to the answers given to my hon. Friend on 9th November and 23rd November—[Vol. 845, c. 227–8; Vol. 846, c. 483.]