Talk:The Squad (Irish Republican Army unit)

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Could someone who knows insert something about the intelligence leaks from Dublin Castle that enabled the Apostles to track down the members of the Cairo gang? I'm English and a non-historian, so I'm not in a position to add this information. Regards to all, Notreallydavid 03:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Magpie66 (talk) 11:29, 26 June 2016 (UTC) The article says Collins asked McKee to form the squad in March 1920, but then said the squad's first killing was in July 1919, obviously one of these two dates are wrong. I think the March 1920 date is incorrect but do not know the correct dateMagpie66 (talk) 11:29, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This article isn't very good, all the names of the Squad have been published by the National Library. I have to dig out my book. There were several sources of information which led to the targeting of the Cairo Gang (so called because they frequented the Cairo Cafe in the city centre!) including maids, porters, spies in Dublin Castle. The men didn't make any great efforts to stay undercover. Sean O'Casaidhe

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"Understandably, there is no hard evidence to support many of these names"

If the war ended in 1921, and the military archives including memoirs were being collected in the 1940s, it is odd that the sources are incomplete. Could it be that some members acted as look-outs, which carried a different risk from the gunmen, and that the gunmen didn't think of look-outs as full members?78.19.200.247 (talk) 09:38, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]