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Redundant (info is repeated elsewhere) and poorly written.


* LoveToHate: The SmugSnake Belfast Detective and his colleagues, who are arrogant, unpleasant to Ned Broy and absolutely convinced that they're going to easily stamp out Collins and his men--only to immediately fall victim to ExternalCombustion. When the film was first shown in Irish cinemas in 1996, audiences would routinely cheer this scene. It never actually happened, Collins planned to murder Sir Ormonde Winter, the head of British intelligence using a car bomb but Winter was tipped off by seized IRA documents and personally captured the bomber. Winter considered Collins documents his greatest source of information and had to create an entire unit, The Raid Bureau, just to read them all, Collins more of a liability for the IRA than an asset. .

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* LoveToHate: The SmugSnake Belfast Detective and his colleagues, who are arrogant, unpleasant to Ned Broy and absolutely convinced that they're going to easily stamp out Collins and his men--only to immediately fall victim to ExternalCombustion. When the film was first shown in Irish cinemas in 1996, audiences would routinely cheer this scene. It never actually happened, Collins planned to murder Sir Ormonde Winter, the head of British intelligence using a car bomb but Winter was tipped off by seized IRA documents and personally captured the bomber. Winter considered Collins documents his greatest source of information and had to create an entire unit, The Raid Bureau, just to read them all, Collins more of a liability for the IRA than an asset. .
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Actor trivia shoehorns.


* HilariousInHindsight:
** As part of a CastingGag, Creator/LiamNeeson suggested that Creator/AidanQuinn be cast as the villain in the action-thriller ''Unknown'', 15 years after they had played best buds in this film.
** [[Series/GameOfThrones Tywin Lannister]] never gets to die with dignity, does he?
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* LoveToHate: The SmugSnake Belfast Detective and his colleagues, who are arrogant, unpleasant to Ned Broy and absolutely convinced that they're going to easily stamp out Collins and his men--only to immediately fall victim to ExternalCombustion. When the film was first shown in Irish cinemas in 1996, audiences would routinely cheer this scene. It never actually happened, Collins planned to murder Sir Ormonde Winter, the head of British intelligence but Winter was tipped off by seized IRA documents and personally captured the bomber. Winter considered Collins documents his greatest source of information and had to create an entire unit, The Raid Bureau, just to read them all, Collins more of a liability for the IRA than an asset. .

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* LoveToHate: The SmugSnake Belfast Detective and his colleagues, who are arrogant, unpleasant to Ned Broy and absolutely convinced that they're going to easily stamp out Collins and his men--only to immediately fall victim to ExternalCombustion. When the film was first shown in Irish cinemas in 1996, audiences would routinely cheer this scene. It never actually happened, Collins planned to murder Sir Ormonde Winter, the head of British intelligence using a car bomb but Winter was tipped off by seized IRA documents and personally captured the bomber. Winter considered Collins documents his greatest source of information and had to create an entire unit, The Raid Bureau, just to read them all, Collins more of a liability for the IRA than an asset. .
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historical accuracy


* LoveToHate: The SmugSnake Belfast Detective and his colleagues, who are arrogant, unpleasant to Ned Broy and absolutely convinced that they're going to easily stamp out Collins and his men--only to immediately fall victim to ExternalCombustion. When the film was first shown in Irish cinemas in 1996, audiences would routinely cheer this scene.

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* LoveToHate: The SmugSnake Belfast Detective and his colleagues, who are arrogant, unpleasant to Ned Broy and absolutely convinced that they're going to easily stamp out Collins and his men--only to immediately fall victim to ExternalCombustion. When the film was first shown in Irish cinemas in 1996, audiences would routinely cheer this scene. It never actually happened, Collins planned to murder Sir Ormonde Winter, the head of British intelligence but Winter was tipped off by seized IRA documents and personally captured the bomber. Winter considered Collins documents his greatest source of information and had to create an entire unit, The Raid Bureau, just to read them all, Collins more of a liability for the IRA than an asset. .



%%** The Squad tracking down and assassinating the members of the Cairo Gang, crippling British military intelligence at a stroke.

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%%** The Squad tracking down and assassinating the members of the Cairo Gang, temporarily crippling British military intelligence at a stroke.stroke. However the Cairo Gang was nearly 100 strong and in the long term it had little to no effect.

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