What is more, shameless is that IRA men apologised for these ruthless murderers. Generally, stolen cars full of bombs are parked in a place near to the target and with its explosion a large area is damaged. This is one of the most common IRA activities. .
Structure: .
They have several hundred fighters and thousands of supporters among the Irish Catholic population. The group is leaded by Sinn Fein. They receive financial support and aid from sympathizers in the U.S., and have received arms and training in Libya and from the PLO. There way to act, in operations suggest links to the ETA. .
Their methods:.
The IRA used bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, extortion, and robberies. Before its 1994 cease-fire, its targets included senior British Government officials, British military and police in Northern Ireland, and Northern Irish Loyalist paramilitary groups. Since breaking its cease-fire in February 1996, IRA's operations have included bombing campaigns against train and subway stations and shoppping areas on mainland Britain, British military and Royal Ulster police force targets in Northern Ireland, and a British military facility on the European Continent.
The IRA uses hand made bombs most of the time, and most of the IRA militants are bomb experts. IRA militants give bomb training to the Middle-Eastern terrorists such as the PLO, PKK, ETA and FARC just to name a few organisations. .
Support:.
It is known that one of IRA's most important financial resources is the "Irish Northern Aid Committee" "NORAID" in the USA. The United Kingdom tries to eliminate this support by effecting on powerful Irish Lobby in USA. Libya is another supporter of IRA. .
There are strong evidences about the IRA's large weapon resources, these are the Middle East and Greek Cyprus. For example, weapon packages, which had stamps from Cyprus on them, were found in November 1977. Later, it was understood that those weapons were sent by Lebanon via Greek Cyprus.