"I wonder if the IRA knows about this? I wouldn't doubt them being in bed with the Russians"

They've been caught working with the 'Ndrangheta before, so it's not totally out of the question. I think they almost have to be. To think that a group of foreigners are going to walk into a place that was almost a warzone within recent memory and shove around the paramilitaries like they were nothing is absurd. They have to be giving something to either a catholic or protestant militia or both.