By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and bullets from Philadelphia and its suburbs to arm guerrilla fighters in ...
The guns began arriving in 1971 ... It wasn’t until the 1990s, when the Philly-to-IRA pipeline dried up, that the IRA moved on to sources in the Middle East and the power of NORAID waned.