The IRA covered up the crime and intimidated witnesses for three weeks as community outrage, led by the family of the dead man, built. Now that the intimidation has failed, they are attempting to take the moral high ground by expelling three scapegoats(when there were far more than three individuals involved in the crime and subsequent cover-up) and Adams is claiming that they are outraged. This is simply damage control on their part, and I suspect that the fact that the other man the shinner thugs tried to murder is still alive and willing to testify has also influenced the IRA's 11th-hour decision to throw three of them overboard.
It is good to see these scummies sweating for a change.
And now, Viola - three members expelled.
I must say, the more of this type of crap that goes on the better. Just shows up the 'RA for what they are. Treacherous, scumbag, racketeering, hitmen. (And not very good thugs at that!)