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‘Whitey’ Bulger involved in shipment of weapons for IRA, programme claims

A claim that notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger was involved in a shipment of arms for the IRA is set to be aired. The allegation concerns the Marita Ann trawler which was intercepted off the Co Kerry coast by the Irish navy on September 29, 1984.,,, In autumn 1984, the seven-tonne arsenal of weapons was delivered to Gloucester, north-east of Boston, for shipment to Ireland on board a fishing boat that the south Boston mob gang had bought and renamed the Valhalla. >click to read< 08:57