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What probably catapulted the INLA to prominence was its assassination on 30 May 1979 of Airey Neave, one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political supporters. It was deemed to be the most ruthless of the Irish terror organisations, but within a decade the group had degenerated through a series of splits, internal feuds, with the warring factions killing each other to such a degree that by the late 1980s it had virtually ceased to exist in its original form. In saying this issues, statements and warnings from the group still pop up in Belfast and elsewhere.
The INLA gained a huge victory for themselves and other Irish nationalists when they killed LVF leader Billy Wright also known as "King Rat."
For a more detailed account of the INLA see Jack Holland and Henry McDonald’s book, INLA: Deadly Divisions, Torc, Dublin, 1994.
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