The World - News from May 27, 1986
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The outlawed Irish Republican Army reported in Belfast, Northern Ireland, that it killed a police informer and dumped his body just inside the British province on the border with the Irish Republic. Police said the victim, Francis Hegarty, a Roman Catholic, had been shot in the head. Hegarty was the second Catholic that the IRA reported killing in the past week, allegedly for giving information to police.
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