A quick bit about the sniper first-

'One Shot Paddy' as the 'sniper' became known was less of an IRA creation than one of the media. The IRA had always acted in a secretive manner even between its own units and as such rarely did a singular person ever rise to the fame that the 'sniper' did, because of this only really the South Armagh brigade and the Army Council (Governing body of the IRA) really knew what was going on.

The lack of information about the 'sniper' as the attacks became more frequent and increasingly deadly lead the media to give them a variety of nicknames ranging from 'goldfinger' to 'the Terminator' and the more humorous 'One Shot Paddy'.

The IRA PROs (Public Relations Officers) quickly jumped on the misconception the media had made and pushed the idea that there was only one sniper to, in a bad analogy like in Enemy at the Gates, create a hero character.

Now in reality there wasn't a single sniper, there were two teams operating, only one of which was captured. The second was never caught and was actually suspected of travelling to Palestine to join the PLO (an IRA ally) after a deadly sniper attack occured in Palestine, but the 'sniper's' reputation had preceded him and it was actually a Palestinian that had carried out the attack.

So, in reality these songs were dedicated to the myth of the 'Sniper' not to any individual person or to the South Armagh Brigade. The speculation over who the sniper was or were he came from only added to the mystique and made it in short a good story.