"As for the US supporting the IRA, we're still locking horns with some of their folks, and their trainees, in Colombia, among other places. Neither the IRA nor Sinn Fein has never been a friend to the US."
SNG do you actually mean this? If I correct for the double-negative, this is what you have actually said;
"either the IRA or Sinn Fein has ever been a friend to the US."
As for US support of the IRA, wasn't there a fundrasing outfit called NorAid?