If I may contribute, the person who said a lot of the material was in the public domain was quite correct. Also, what I find interesting is the wording, those listening closely to the news here would have noticed the material discovered in various republican homes are not connected to the missing files. Also, it's laughable for the First Minister of the NI assembly to expect us to believe it's some shocking new development that the IRA have an intelligence division. Many people in the North from both communities could point you towards the locale of 'secret' bases. Next up, some more laptops left ready to be collected one presumes, the whole thing is reminscent of Michael Collin's intelligence gathering tactics of just walking in like you belong there. The real terror here is the notion of course of Sinn Fein picking up some extra TDs down south in the forthcoming Irish elections. Considering the shaky nature of the govts. down there, which are coalitions on a regular basis they wouldn't need all that many seats to be more influential than one would think.