Ex-IRA prisoner Dolours Price dies
Former IRA prisoner Dolours Price has been found dead at her home in Malahide, it has been reported.
A gardaí spokesperson confirmed the discovery of a woman in her early 60s at St Margaret’s Road, Malahide, Co Dublin at 10pm on Wednesday night.
They are not treating the death as suspicious at this stage.
A post mortem examination is due.
Price is the former wife of actor Stephen Rea, to whom she had two sons.
She was convicted, along with her sister Marian, for their part in the IRA bomb attack on London’s Old Bailey courts in 1973 in which one man died and more than 200 people were injured.
Former IRA volunteer-turned-writer Anthony McIntyre interviewed Dolours Price, and a number of other Republican and Loyalists paramilitaries, for a history project at Boston College in the United States which began in 2001.
The interviewees were promised that the confidential archived material would not be made public until after their deaths.
But Dolours Price has previously claimed to a Belfast newspaper that , during the recordings, she made allegations that Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams personally ordered the abduction of several people in the 1970s, including Belfast mother of 10 Jean McConville.
The PSNI has sought access to all Boston College recordings carried out with Price as part of their investigation into the murder of Jean McConville, one of the so-called Disappeared.
