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For the first six weeks of the Civil War, the anti-Treaty IRA controlled Cork City. During that time they took over the Cork Examiner, a move that was denounced by the paper’s editor, George Crosbie. He accused the IRA of turning the paper into a platform for ‘a vile and insidious propaganda containing a great deal more fiction than fact’.
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