However , in 2014 the `` Irish Times '' released Releasing a confidential memo from the then-Director of Intelligence Colonel Michael Joe Costello ( later managing Hold director of the Irish Sugar Company ) in September 1925 in relation to a pension claim Statement by former Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) volunteer Daniel O'Neill of Enniskean , County Cork , stating Statement : `` O'Neill is stated Statement to be a very unscrupulous individual and to have taken part Dispersal in such operations Military_operation as lotting [ looting Robbery ] of Post Offices , robbing Robbery of Postmen and the murder Killing of several Protestants in West Cork in May 1922 .