The events that provoked last week 's statement -- the robbery of more than $ 50 million from a Belfast bank last December and the subsequent killing of a Belfast Catholic , Robert McCartney , by what are generally believed to be I.R.A. members -- showed that the conventional test of I.R.A. sincerity , its willingness to disarm transparently , was made largely irrelevant .
Robert McCartney /people/person/place_of_birth Belfast
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Robert McCartney
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