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==Investigation== The Irish government launched a manhunt involving 4,000 [[Garda Síochána|Gardaí]] and 2,000 soldiers.<ref name="TIME"/> [[Taoiseach]] [[Liam Cosgrave]] declared that "this atrocity fills all decent Irish people with a sense of shame."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/22/archives/britains-envoy-in-dublin-killed-by-mine-britains-ambassador-in.html|title=Britain's Envoy in Dublin Killed by Mine |first=Bernard |last=Weinraub |date=22 July 1976|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref> In London, the UK Prime Minister [[James Callaghan]] condemned the assassins as a "common enemy whom we must destroy or be destroyed by".<ref name="TIME">{{Cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914439,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220081021/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914439,00.html |archive-date=20 February 2011 |title=Trial by Fire in Dublin |date=2 August 1976 |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] }}</ref> Thirteen suspected members of the IRA were arrested during raids as the British and Irish governments attempted to apprehend the assassins, but no one was ever convicted of the killings. In 2006, released [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] files revealed that the Gardaí had matched a partial fingerprint at the scene to Martin Taylor, an IRA member suspected of [[gun running]] from the United States.<ref name="telegraph1"/> Taylor denied involvement.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1538132/Prime-suspect-denies-ambassadors-murder.html|title=Prime suspect denies ambassador's murder |first=Stewart|last= Payne|date=30 December 2006 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>
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