sentences:  The PIE members have also been subsequently pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables by "angry mothers" and needed protection from the police.The far right British National Front also protested in front of PIE's conferences in the 1970s.In the summer of 1978 the homes of several PIE committee members were raided by the police as part of a full-scale inquiry into PIE's activities; as a result of this inquiry, a substantial report was submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the prosecution of PIE activists followed.