Harry Kirkpatrick
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Harry Kirkpatrick is a former Irish National Liberation Army man turned supergrass. Fell out with the INLA following then Chief of Staff Dominic McGlinchey's decision to execute Kirkpatrick's lifelong friend Gerard 'Sparky' Barkley.
Kirkpatrick was the primary source of evidence in the supergrass trials in the mid-eighties. The trials failed to convict anyone, but the distrust and division that they sowed were the final act in splitting former comrades into warring factions and leading to the formation of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation and leading to that organisation's murderous feud with the INLA in which 16 people were killed.
He is now living under a secret identity, whereabouts unknown.
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- INLA Deadly Divisions (Holland and McDonald)
