[4] Shortly afterwards, the company was the subject to an article in Computimes, a special section on computing run once a week by the Irish Times,[5][not specific enough to verify] about a security breach in their system.
[citation needed] This story, due to the interest in the development of the internet, made the front page of the Irish Times.
[citation needed] Questions about the sources of funding for the original startup were highlighted by incidents such as the news that a man who US Federal officials said was a member of the Irish Republican Army was being held on charges of carrying $13,500 in counterfeit $50 bills at LaGuardia Airport, when arrested.
The suspect, Donal Patrick Moyna, then 29 years old, of Dublin, was about to board a plane for Providence, R.I., when he was stopped by agents of the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[1] In the late 1990s, it was announced that the national telephone company, Telecom Éireann, saw an opportunity to enter the ISP market and made an offer for Indigo.