Apart from him telling the gardai he robbed the banks for the IRA when he was arrested for the bank robberies you mean?
Because he never admitted publicly of being a member does not mean he wasn't, see yer man Adams for proof of that,
he and the IRA are hardly going to admit they robbed the banks to fund their terrorist campaigns now are they?
No one is questioning the IRA were a far more proficient killing machine than the pumping iron loyalists, their murder record speaks for itself, however the continual denial of anyone associated with drugs had nothing to do with the provos is simply preposterous, I am not suggesting for one second they sold drugs from street corners in Belfast, but they used their safe smuggling routes to traffic drugs across the sea into the UK, they were paid by the criminal gangs to import the drugs which they did with ease.
The notion that a terrorist gang would use bombing by proxy to further it ends, but wouldn't use drugs trafficking to fund it is patently nonsense,
they did it then and still do it now, they haven't gone away and still have to pay for the pensions of all their members and of the people who gave up their lives for them, see the Northern Bank robbery for more proof of that.
After the bombing by proxy murders at Gillespie's funeral, Bishop Edward Daly said the IRA and its supporters were "...the complete contradiction of Christianity. They may say they are followers of Christ. Some of them may even still engage in the hypocrisy of coming to church, but their lives and their works proclaim clearly that they follow Satan."
And yet the likes of you revulse at the suicide bombings carried out by Muslim terrorist in the middle east!