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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scolairebocht" data-source="post: 9081" data-attributes="member: 8">Usually they say that the ambush was kind of a defensive measure, to delay the Free State from capturing all the big anti-Treaty that were around the area. Also that the ambush had been called off effectively with only about 5 or 6 people hanging around (not including Sonny O'Neill it seems) who were alerted to the convoy by one of them firing into the air as a warning. That was in turn perceived as hostile by the convoy and hence the short 15 minute or so exchange of fire with those 5 or 6 guys. In that time nobody was injured on either side, apart from one small injury to I think motor bike rider, except for the one fatal exact bullet for Collins.But anyway officialdom/academicdom is now going the way you have indicated. Before this it was Sonny O'Neill and now its a great conspiracy by the whole anti-Treaty IRA to entrap and kill Collins.I am not so sure of that really, it was the British who really wanted him killed!</blockquote>

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