The IRA are communists, just for the record. They receive no support from any of my relatives in Ireland, I am happy to report. When I was a young kid in the 1970s, we had to be evacuated from Shannon Airport’s hotel due to a bomb scare caused by the IRA.
Not to mention, Ireland is still waking up to the fact that it surrendered its freedom to the German-led European Union back in 1972. All too slowly, however.
IF you do some research from the late 19th & early 20th Centuries, you will discover that the IRA was once simply a FREE IRELAND movement & NOT even “a leftist group” back then, though the English government certainly called them “terrorists”.
(Over time, groups can/do change radically. - For example, The Democrats Party was once “moderate, though left of center”; in 2019 it’s to the LEFT of the Socialists, imo.)
Yours, TMN78247