I. R. A.

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Four young Catholic boys, brought up during the turmoil of the troubles in Belfast. They called themselves the four Musketeers. Their leader Paddy O Brien would see his whole family massacred in a Protestant raid. He was then crippled in a gang fi ght at the age of fourteen. His friends came to see him in hospital, where they swore a blood oath to strike a blow against the British, when they grew up. It would be the last time they would be together they thought. Dermot Tobin the brains of the outfi t, would go to University in England, and end up on the Royal Staff. Sean O Tool and his family would immigrate to Australia, where there was work for his father. James Mc Shane would end up working in the Construction Industry, as a labourer. At the age of eighteen, Paddy O Brien joined the IRA, but was soon disillusioned. He had hoped to be killing British Soldiers from day one. Being a cripple the only thing they would let him do, was to take the bucket around the bars, collecting money for the cause. That was soon to change when the four Musketeers came back together.

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