The charge is perhaps impossible to disprove but the revelations in BBC 2’s The Funeral Murders makes a valuable contribution to the historical record. Donnan was under strict instructions “not to deploy” security forces in order to allow the funeral to go ahead without interference. When the IRA undertook not to use traditional IRA funeral trappings, like shots over the graves, the RUC agreed to the request. Stone was a terrorist and a murderer.”Indeed, Stone’s fate was left in the hands of republicans who gave chase, braving his bullets and grenades. But looking back, that’s not always how things worked in what the IRA has always chosen to call a war.

Source: The Irish Times March 19, 2018 00:56 UTC