LSource 6 The weapon that killed him, consistent with the evidence, was a Lee Enfield .303 and used by the man I believe shot Collins … He was 32-year- old, Denis O’Neill (nicknamed Sonny O’Neill), an ex-British army marksman … who had joined the IRA. According to this letter [shown on screen], he came to Dublin and gave a graphic description of his shooting of Collins to the IRA’s then Chief Intelligence Officer, Comdt. General Sean Dowling. (Colm Connolly, The Shadow of Béal na Bláth [RTÉ documentary, 1989])
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LSource 7 The remarkable thing was you had four British officers guarding him [Collins] … ’Tis hard to understand that from my point of view … And I believe one of the four said we’ll get him before we’ll come back and they got him … One of the four shot him, I believe … The IRA did not shoot him. (Comdt. General Tom Kelleher, involved in the organisation of the ambush [interview])
