The bookseller, Waterstone, has withdrawn a book about the IRA because of alleged libel.
The book, Bandit Country - The IRA & South Armagh by Toby Harnden, former Ireland correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and now its Washington bureau chief, was withdrawn from bookshelves on Wednesday, a week after it went on sale, the assistant manager at the company's Dublin office, Mr Andrew Waters, confirmed yesterday.
Twelve copies of the book had been sold in that time in the shop, while the book topped the best-seller list in Northern Ireland in the same week.
The British bookstore chain withdrew the book as a precautionary measure after receiving a letter from solicitors representing Mr Danny McNamee, who successfully appealed his conviction for conspiracy to cause explosions in connection with the Hyde Park bombing in London in 1982 in which four soldiers and seven horses were killed.
He had served 11 years of a 25-year sentence and was released in November last year under the terms of the Belfast Agreement, one month before his conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in London.
The lawyers alleged the book libelled Mr McNamee, who is from Crossmaglen, Co Armagh.
The book also claims a Garda officer assisted the IRA in the killing of two senior RUC officers who had been on a cross-Border liaison visit.