Editing Seamus Costello (section)

==Founds INLA and IRSP==
At a meeting in the [[Lucan, County Dublin|Lucan]] Spa Hotel near [[Dublin]], on 8 December 1974, the [[Irish Republican Socialist Party]] was formed by republicans, socialists, and trade unionists with Costello as the chairperson.

At a private meeting later the same day, the [[Irish National Liberation Army]] was formed with Costello as the Chief of Staff, although its existence was to be kept secret for a time.  The new grouping intended to combine left-wing politics with the "armed struggle" against British security forces in Northern Ireland.

Within days of its founding, the fledgling [[Irish Republican Socialist Movement]] was embroiled in a bitter feud with the Official IRA. The feud resulted in the attempted assassination of Official IRA leader [[Sean Garland]] who was wounded in an INLA attack near his home in the [[Ballymun]] area of Dublin (Garland was wounded six times but survived the attack). Before a truce was reached, three members of the IRSP were dead.  Later that same year, [[Bernadette McAliskey|Bernadette Devlin McAliskey]] resigned from the IRSP over the failure of a motion that would have brought the INLA under IRSP control, taking over half of the [[Ard Chomhairle]] members with her.

In July 1976 Costello was replaced as INLA chief-of-staff by South Derry man [[Eddy McNicholl]], although he still wielded considerable influence within the movement, retaining his position as chairman of the IRSP.