Even worse, the president of Ireland at that time was none other than Éamon de Valera, one of the 1916 fighters.
Ireland’s government followed the pattern of the Weimar Republic, where the king is replaced by the president in a form of constitutional parliamentary democracy; so although the president does not execute the laws as the prime minister has the power to, all laws need his signature.
Apparently a lot of the bold IRA bombers, who killed innocents of all ages with their IE’s had trained in the Middle east.
They learned how to murder innocents from their Islamic brothers