14 NOVEMBER 1987, page 15

The Ira's `mistake'

Patrick Bishop on the meaning of the Poppy Day massacre for Republican terrorists `A WOMAN came out and the other man held her . . . . I just fired at the man in the hallway. I......

Patrick Bishop In On The Staff Of The Sunday Telegraph

and is the author of The Provisional IRA (with Eamonn Mallie) published earlier this year by Heinemann.......