Controversy
Irish Republicans have strongly denied the allegations made by O'Callaghan in his book 'The Informer' and subsequent newspaper articles. O'Callaghan stated that he had risen to leader of Southern Command and a substitute delegate on the IRA Army Council both in print and before a Dublin jury under oath. However, these claims have been disputed. One republican source says O'Callaghan "...has been forced to overstate his former importance in the IRA and to make increasingly outlandish accusations against individual republicans."
The Irish Republican movement also has denied O'Callaghan's claims to have attended an IRA finance meeting alongside Pat Finucane and Gerry Adams in Letterkenny in 1980. However, both Finucane and Adams have repeatedly denied being IRA members. In Finucane's case, both the RUC and the Stevens Report have said that he was not a member.
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