The Kennedys and the Irish Catholic organized crime ring funded terrorism for years.
There were a lot of Irish Pubs where you’d be best advised to make that donation for the “orphans in Northern Ireland”, though I doubt much of the money ever found its way clear of the collector’s bar tab, much less to any orphans or terrorists.
Indeed they did, funding the IRA back in the olde country through an organization portrayed as “helping the old and neglected little old Irish ladies”.... NORAID. The US funding wing HQ’d in ... Boston.
The IRA and the Libyans were in the terrorist business big time, with the Libyans being the IRA’s greatest supporters, interconnecting along with Palestinians (Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Fatah, and good ole Yasser Arafat), in those days.
This has been a subject of amazement— these “Irish-Americans” who have no idea about the reality of Ireland and the UK, only what the Kennedy’s wanted to push for their own alignments (to include Joe Sr’s. embarrassing support of the Nazis— fact, and removed him from the Court of St. James).
Noraid still has a website, closely watched no doubt (to the extent the FBI doesn’t have a “kennedy” cabal- which it is suspected of, certainly).
Here’s a great article summarizing the lunacy that is/was the “Plastic Paddys” (so named Irish-Americans who have no clue):
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/noraid-ira-americas-plastic-paddys-alan-malcher-ma