Soon gun-running routes back to Ireland were established that fuelled the fledgling Provo campaign. Billy ‘Blue’ Kelly a veteran republican - who helped negotiate an arms deal with Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi IRA man Joe Cahill. Denis Donaldson Billy ‘Blue’ Kelly photgraphed in Long Kesh during the early 1970s Billy ‘Blue’ Kelly was present when Gaddafi agreed to supply the Provisional IRA, with weapons and explosives to help kick-start its 25-year terror war.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (Photo by Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) A veteran republican who once did a deal with Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi for guns and bombs says the IRA terror war was a failure. Ex-IRA man Billy ‘Blue’ Kelly (75) was in his twenties when he flew to North Africa with IRA leader Joe Cahill and fellow volunteer Denis Donaldson. Their quest was to persuade the oil-rich state’s leader Muammar Gaddafi to part with weapons for use in an all-out ‘Brits Out’ war in Northern Ireland.
Soon gun-running routes back to Ireland were established that fuelled the fledgling Provo campaign. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (Photo by Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) But in an interview with the Sunday World , ‘Blue’ Kelly hit out at the change of direction adopted by the republican leadership. He said: “We ended up in the same place we started.
The fundamentals remain the same. The British still rule. You can’t get away from that fact.
” Kelly added: “But a lot .