Edited sentence: As to the voracity of the claim.De Rossa.. Frank Ross as he  was known at the time visited the home of one of former IRA colleagues in the late sixties, a fellow internee in the Curragh.Expunge away, but don't doubt the truth of it.... I was that little boy.One of the great ironies of life is how politicians change their spots as their political careers mature.So you Labour party editors who come to expunge this particular piece of dirty history from the WikiSphere.The incident was also witnessed by an impressionable young boy who cowered behind his mother during the exchange.The purpose of his visit was to threaten to shoot the former colleague who at this time was an outspoken critic of the IRA and its violent activities.The subject of the threat was ironically at this time a Labour Party member and had renounced his IRA and Sein Fein links.The threat was received not by the man himself but his young wife who replied by  tell Mr Ross that she herself had been trained to use a gun by Cumann Na mBan and would kill Mr Ross himself is a hair were harmed on her husbands head.this being WikiPedia I fully expect this paragraph to be expunged and yes this is an anonymous post