Mary may have been killed the same gang that would later be responsible for McGlinchey's death, part of a "long-running feud", suggested a group of Belfast journalists researching the conflict's mortality rate. The author Ed Moloney interviewed an anonymous IRA man from the time who described McGlinchey's gang, as well as relations between them and the IRA leadership of Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams. He failed to make bail at Dublin's Special Criminal Court after a Garda Superintendent argued that McGlinchey would fail to attend court if bailed. He had moved to Drogheda and was now living in near-anonymity; few of his neighbours were aware of his past. Dominic McGlinchey's net worth An INLA statement claimed that he had been executed foramong other thingstrying to establish the whereabouts of "an alleged INLA man wanted on both sides of the border". Picture of her body being removed from house. Garda forensic officers told the coroner that they had compared the shell casings they had found with the database, but no matches had been made to other known weapons; the officer noted that, as of that time, no such information had been received from the RUC. It has worked for me down the years. In 1982, while serving time inPortlaoise Prison, he clashed with the IRA leadership and despite his effectiveness in an active service unit he was expelled from the IRA. Audiences abroad often miss the parallels in the filme.g. Photograph: Padraig OReilly. "We shouldn't be dishonouring it by the mindless use of violence. The caption read "Comrade Dominic McGlinchey. They fired at Mary McGlinchey with automatic weapons, shooting her in the face. Just weeks later OHare was shot in the leg and hand in an IRA attack in south Armagh in which British soldiers were shot at on the street in Keady. During the period of his incarceration, the external leadership were in secret negotiations with the British government and was considering a ceasefire. As a result, he became an informal advisor to other prisoners and was able to dismiss his barristers and prosecute his own appeals. Under McGlinchey, the INLA, which had previously had a reputation for disorganisation, became extremely active in cross-border assassinations and bombings. On his release from Long Kesh McGlinchey was appointed "Double O"Operations Officerfor the region, and lived on the run for the next three years. 11 October, 2016 01:00 Brenda McGlinchey is helped by Sean McGlinchey to carry the remains of her husband Declan in November last year. Her 39-year-old husband, at one time the INLA BELLAGHY, Co. Derry The two sons of INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey and his wife, Mary, have given their first public interview and are demanding answers to questions about why their parents were murdered. Less than four months after being shot and delivered to Monaghan Hospital in June 1979, OHare was shot again during another attack. He was cleared of these charges. He still respected McGuinness and when they met, McGlinchey assured him that he would not be against joint operations. It has been alleged that he was targeted for assassination by14 Intelligence Company. Following McGlinchey's death, a number of stories appeared in the Irish press accusing him of drug dealing and other crimes, such as fencing stolen lorries from the border region. At an Army Council meeting in Ardee held later that month, the Belfast man was sidelined and McGlinchey was elected. It may also have been over money. His grandmother served six months in a British prison for the offence of keeping Republicans. When the INLA seemed on the verge of collapse, it defied all predictions. By this time McGlinchey had already earned the moniker Mad Dog because of his ruthlessness. McGlinchey's tactics for evading capture, the Garda later reported, included never staying in the one place too long and frequently disguising his appearance. Back in 1988, OHare dubbed the Border Fox for his ability to evade justice North and South was jailed for two terms of imprisonment of 20 years, to be served consecutively, for the kidnapping of Dr OGrady and mutilating him. Pacemaker Press Intl. In February 1977, he was found with Colt .38 special revolver and five rounds of ammunition in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan. Mary's inquest was delayed three months as McGlinchey's counsel argued he had only been informed two days earlier and had not had sufficient time to instruct him. He never dishonoured the cause he believed in. One extreme tactic, allegedly used in October 1983, was described by The Guardian as "badly botched". He also said he had provided the weapons for theDarkley massacre, an attack on a remote evangelical Protestant chapel, but had not approved that attack. McGlinchey was convicted and sent to the Republic of Ireland's maximum-security Portlaoise Prison. Sinn Fin said the extradition had caused "a sense of treachery and anger" in the Nationalist community; The Economist wrote that, while "the IRA had no love for Mr McGlincheyit must fear the creation of precedents that could affect its own gunmen". By the middle of the decade, there was a growing popular, peaceful campaign for civil rights for Catholics. As a result, McGlinchey was returned to the Republic, where he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on firearms charges. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The descent into chaos had begun." The Special Criminal Court in 1988 said OHare must serve the full sentence. A later report suggested that Mary had wanted to kill them, but her husband restrained her. McGlinchey's grave had a flagpole next to it from which a Tricolour flew after the burial. The former charts McGlincheys life from his teens through to his eventual killing in a phonebox while the latter references his theft and use ofGardauniforms. He was very focussed. Not only did the INLA fail to hit any of its designated targets, but a number of their operations killed Catholic children, with three dying in Belfast as a result of INLA explosions in a five-month period. Born on October 26th, 1956, OHare grew up in a strongly republican family in the Ballymacawley area of Keady, Co Armagh, and joined the Provisional IRA aged 16. McGlincheywith Maryand comrades were covering them with their guns as the police entered. As the Dale Case illustrates, McGlinchey occasionally tortured his victims, often "with the aid of instruments such as a red-hot poker", says Coogan, often using Tom McCartan, a "quick-tempered and violent man", for such work. Four of the dead were women; the INLA's subsequent claim of responsibility described them and the other injured women as "consorts". When asked about McGlinchey, Shane MacGowan remarked, He was a great man., My autobiography: A Belfast Child is now available to pre-order on Amazon , launch date is 30th April. 2/2/87 His precise reasons for doing so are unclear, but Dillon speculates that "he was reacting to events around him and the idea of participating in marches offered glamour and a close identification with his own community". The attacker then drew a pistol, with a number of shots hitting McGlinchey; he, however, was able to take cover in a shrubbery. According to McGlinchey's son Dominic, speaking in 2014, his father was working alongside a senior Provisional IRA man investigating links between a corrupt IRA unit and the UVF in Dublin. McGlinchey instructed them to proceed with the bombing and to ensure maximum casualties. It was held at Dundalk Court House on July 8, 1988. McGlincheystill on the runwas reportedly spotted all over the island. the assassination of Macduff s family draws heavily upon the assassination of the wife of Irish National Liberation Army leader Dominic McGlinchey, Mary McGlinchey, bathing her two children at home. The incident was the beginning of a feud between the northern family and McGlinchey, whereby a long running series of tit for tat revenge killings between the factions eventually led to the demise of the original participants on both sides. The Ballykelly bombing encouraged the Irish court to reconsider its position: the following day, Ireland's Supreme Court ordered McGlinchey to be extradited to Belfast in response to an earlier RUC request for McGlinchey to be returned to them to face trial for the murder of Hester McMullan. He is a member of famous with the age 68 years old group. "The horrifying impact of witnessing such cold brutality on McGlincheys son can only be guessed at", observe Holland and McDonald. Declan McGlinchey was well-known in GAA circles in Co Derry. It also, suggests Coogan, "inject[ed] something of a Robin Hood element" to republican propaganda, as well asby making them "peel off" their uniforms"adding a new definition to the tern 'peeler'". O'Brien also denied ever having an affair with McGlinchey; she claimed later that, as a result of her research for a book, she had to refute questions as to whether she "had love affairs with republicans". McGlinchey had "helped keep the INLA on the map after the hunger strike", says Davies, and Holland and McDonald suggest that the INLA's fragmentation after his death indicates McGlinchey's importance to the organisation. McGlinchey saw himself similarly. This occurred "fairly promptly", noted Gemma Hussey, Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, in her cabinet diary. He was again arrested on 14 March 2009 in connection with themurder of Police Service of Northern Ireland constable Stephen Carrollbut no charges were brought. These were propaganda disasters for McGlinchey, and, say Holland and McDonald, "gave the INLA a reputation for recklessness". Money and weapons were essential for the INLA's campaign, and McGlincheyby now accompanied by Dessie O'Hareorganised a number of bank and Securicor robberies, on one occasion stealing 100,000 in a single raid. However, he was released from Castlerea Prison, Co Roscommon, on Thursday, April 13th, 2006, under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. Keane suggests that an associate of the dead men had already returned to Dundalk in 1989when it had seemed as if McGlinchey's appeal might be successfulfrom abroad and had been open about his intentions if McGlinchey was released. Effectively, argues the journalist Fergal Keane, by the time of McGlinchey's death, "there was no-one left in the organisation to protect him". McGlinchey maintained regular contact with the outside, and was particularly keen to recruit the last INLA chief of staffbut who had since left the groupback into the organisation. This time the class leaders were not old Border campaigners, but relatively young Provisionals. The family held McGlinchey and his late wife, Mary, responsible for killing one of their number in 1983. There is no glory or anything to this. Dessie OHare leaving the Special Criminal Court, Dublin. Paul was jailed for 14 years after attempting to assassinate the Reverend Overend in 1976whom the INLA would later try and blow up on McGlinchey's orders; he later stood against Sinn Fin in the 2007 Assembly election. The focus, he said, was on portraying McGlinchey was different from the brand of Irish republicanism that was increasingly becoming part of mainstream political discourse. The oration was delivered byBernadette McAliskey. Although he rejected accusations of involvement in the murder, he claimedin the words of the Extradition Act of 1965that the Toomebridge operation had been "a political offence or an offence connected with a political offence". Kriss Donald The Brutal Racist Killing of an InnocentSchoolboy. There were failed operations, and McGlincheywho believed that this was the result of an informer in the ranksdevoted much time and energy to finding the cause. McGlincheys balaclava had slits for his eyes and stretched below his chin; he wore a combat jacket, and a shoulder holster resting on his chest contained a .44 magnum revolver. 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The largest mainstream left-wing political party in the Republic, Fianna Fail, "kept an uneasy silence while some backbenchers protested" against it, while the Taoiseach gave it his "vigorous backing". He was convicted of hijacking a police vehicle and threatening officers with a gun. The Attorney General is consulting with the coroner for Co. Louth on whether he should order a new inquest into the murder of Mary McGlinchey in 1987. At the debriefing of the surviving volunteers, an attendee later recalled, McGlinchey "went mad and called us all stupid cunts". He had served seven of his 10-year sentence. We investigated it at the time but we got nowhere and were not looking at it any more.". McGlinchey not only lacked McGuinness's restraint, said Johnston, but would "shoot his own mother and all the rest of it". Vincent Browne asked McGlinchey what he thought would happen to him eventually. Pacemaker Press Intl. However, they were led to waiting gunmen and shot dead. The Irish Brigade's ballad, "Hands Up, Trousers Down" referenced McGlinchey's treatment of the Garda while on the run. Pictures of sons Declan and Dominic who witnessed the shooting, father of Mary Mr Paddy McNeill carrying the coffin as it arrives home in Toomebridge. McGlinchey told his own story in an extraordinary interview with the Dublin Sunday Tribune newspaper in 1983. McGlinchey summed up his own approach as being "to do what had to be done and don't think about it thereafter". The INLA had previously concentrated on security force targets, in 1979 killing Airey Neave, the Conservative spokesman on Northern Ireland. Dominic McGlinchey was shot 14 times in Statistical breakdown of deaths in the Troubles of Northern Ireland 1969 2001, Irish National Liberation Army ( I.N.L.A), Irish Republican Army. Since Northern Ireland's creation in 1922, the Catholic minority had suffered from varying degrees of discrimination from the Protestant and Unionist majority. Web00:01:54. The author Martin Dillon met McGlinchey in the mid-1980s and described him as "six feet tall, and lean, with a receding hairline. Funeral of dissident Republican Tommy Crossan after he was murdered in west Belfast last week. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The presiding judge, Mr Justice MacMahon commented during his sentencing that "it was to his credit" that MvGlinchey had not fired on the Garda although having had many opportunities to do so. Now aged 62 and having developed interests in yoga and crafts, OHare has aged remarkably well. The murder of Macduff's family in act IV scene ii, comments the director Tom Magill, "draws heavily" on the 1987 murder of Mary McGlinchey while bathing her children. Republic of Ireland 's maximum-security Portlaoise prison all over the island developed interests in yoga and,! 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They fired at Mary McGlinchey with automatic weapons, shooting her in the face. Just weeks later OHare was shot in the leg and hand in an IRA attack in south Armagh in which British soldiers were shot at on the street in Keady. During the period of his incarceration, the external leadership were in secret negotiations with the British government and was considering a ceasefire. As a result, he became an informal advisor to other prisoners and was able to dismiss his barristers and prosecute his own appeals. Under McGlinchey, the INLA, which had previously had a reputation for disorganisation, became extremely active in cross-border assassinations and bombings. On his release from Long Kesh McGlinchey was appointed "Double O"Operations Officerfor the region, and lived on the run for the next three years. 11 October, 2016 01:00 Brenda McGlinchey is helped by Sean McGlinchey to carry the remains of her husband Declan in November last year. Her 39-year-old husband, at one time the INLA BELLAGHY, Co. Derry The two sons of INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey and his wife, Mary, have given their first public interview and are demanding answers to questions about why their parents were murdered. Less than four months after being shot and delivered to Monaghan Hospital in June 1979, OHare was shot again during another attack. He was cleared of these charges. He still respected McGuinness and when they met, McGlinchey assured him that he would not be against joint operations. It has been alleged that he was targeted for assassination by14 Intelligence Company. Following McGlinchey's death, a number of stories appeared in the Irish press accusing him of drug dealing and other crimes, such as fencing stolen lorries from the border region. At an Army Council meeting in Ardee held later that month, the Belfast man was sidelined and McGlinchey was elected. It may also have been over money. His grandmother served six months in a British prison for the offence of keeping Republicans. When the INLA seemed on the verge of collapse, it defied all predictions. By this time McGlinchey had already earned the moniker Mad Dog because of his ruthlessness. McGlinchey's tactics for evading capture, the Garda later reported, included never staying in the one place too long and frequently disguising his appearance. Back in 1988, OHare dubbed the Border Fox for his ability to evade justice North and South was jailed for two terms of imprisonment of 20 years, to be served consecutively, for the kidnapping of Dr OGrady and mutilating him. Pacemaker Press Intl. In February 1977, he was found with Colt .38 special revolver and five rounds of ammunition in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan. Mary's inquest was delayed three months as McGlinchey's counsel argued he had only been informed two days earlier and had not had sufficient time to instruct him. He never dishonoured the cause he believed in. One extreme tactic, allegedly used in October 1983, was described by The Guardian as "badly botched". He also said he had provided the weapons for theDarkley massacre, an attack on a remote evangelical Protestant chapel, but had not approved that attack. McGlinchey was convicted and sent to the Republic of Ireland's maximum-security Portlaoise Prison. Sinn Fin said the extradition had caused "a sense of treachery and anger" in the Nationalist community; The Economist wrote that, while "the IRA had no love for Mr McGlincheyit must fear the creation of precedents that could affect its own gunmen". By the middle of the decade, there was a growing popular, peaceful campaign for civil rights for Catholics. As a result, McGlinchey was returned to the Republic, where he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on firearms charges. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The descent into chaos had begun." The Special Criminal Court in 1988 said OHare must serve the full sentence. A later report suggested that Mary had wanted to kill them, but her husband restrained her. McGlinchey's grave had a flagpole next to it from which a Tricolour flew after the burial. The former charts McGlincheys life from his teens through to his eventual killing in a phonebox while the latter references his theft and use ofGardauniforms. He was very focussed. Not only did the INLA fail to hit any of its designated targets, but a number of their operations killed Catholic children, with three dying in Belfast as a result of INLA explosions in a five-month period. Born on October 26th, 1956, OHare grew up in a strongly republican family in the Ballymacawley area of Keady, Co Armagh, and joined the Provisional IRA aged 16. McGlincheywith Maryand comrades were covering them with their guns as the police entered. As the Dale Case illustrates, McGlinchey occasionally tortured his victims, often "with the aid of instruments such as a red-hot poker", says Coogan, often using Tom McCartan, a "quick-tempered and violent man", for such work. Four of the dead were women; the INLA's subsequent claim of responsibility described them and the other injured women as "consorts". When asked about McGlinchey, Shane MacGowan remarked, He was a great man., My autobiography: A Belfast Child is now available to pre-order on Amazon , launch date is 30th April. 
2/2/87 His precise reasons for doing so are unclear, but Dillon speculates that "he was reacting to events around him and the idea of participating in marches offered glamour and a close identification with his own community". The attacker then drew a pistol, with a number of shots hitting McGlinchey; he, however, was able to take cover in a shrubbery. According to McGlinchey's son Dominic, speaking in 2014, his father was working alongside a senior Provisional IRA man investigating links between a corrupt IRA unit and the UVF in Dublin. McGlinchey instructed them to proceed with the bombing and to ensure maximum casualties. It was held at Dundalk Court House on July 8, 1988. McGlincheystill on the runwas reportedly spotted all over the island. the assassination of Macduff s family draws heavily upon the assassination of the wife of Irish National Liberation Army leader Dominic McGlinchey, Mary McGlinchey, bathing her two children at home. The incident was the beginning of a feud between the northern family and McGlinchey, whereby a long running series of tit for tat revenge killings between the factions eventually led to the demise of the original participants on both sides. The Ballykelly bombing encouraged the Irish court to reconsider its position: the following day, Ireland's Supreme Court ordered McGlinchey to be extradited to Belfast in response to an earlier RUC request for McGlinchey to be returned to them to face trial for the murder of Hester McMullan. He is a member of famous with the age 68 years old group. "The horrifying impact of witnessing such cold brutality on McGlincheys son can only be guessed at", observe Holland and McDonald. Declan McGlinchey was well-known in GAA circles in Co Derry. It also, suggests Coogan, "inject[ed] something of a Robin Hood element" to republican propaganda, as well asby making them "peel off" their uniforms"adding a new definition to the tern 'peeler'". O'Brien also denied ever having an affair with McGlinchey; she claimed later that, as a result of her research for a book, she had to refute questions as to whether she "had love affairs with republicans". McGlinchey had "helped keep the INLA on the map after the hunger strike", says Davies, and Holland and McDonald suggest that the INLA's fragmentation after his death indicates McGlinchey's importance to the organisation. McGlinchey saw himself similarly. This occurred "fairly promptly", noted Gemma Hussey, Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, in her cabinet diary. He was again arrested on 14 March 2009 in connection with themurder of Police Service of Northern Ireland constable Stephen Carrollbut no charges were brought. These were propaganda disasters for McGlinchey, and, say Holland and McDonald, "gave the INLA a reputation for recklessness". Money and weapons were essential for the INLA's campaign, and McGlincheyby now accompanied by Dessie O'Hareorganised a number of bank and Securicor robberies, on one occasion stealing 100,000 in a single raid. However, he was released from Castlerea Prison, Co Roscommon, on Thursday, April 13th, 2006, under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. Keane suggests that an associate of the dead men had already returned to Dundalk in 1989when it had seemed as if McGlinchey's appeal might be successfulfrom abroad and had been open about his intentions if McGlinchey was released. Effectively, argues the journalist Fergal Keane, by the time of McGlinchey's death, "there was no-one left in the organisation to protect him". McGlinchey maintained regular contact with the outside, and was particularly keen to recruit the last INLA chief of staffbut who had since left the groupback into the organisation. This time the class leaders were not old Border campaigners, but relatively young Provisionals. The family held McGlinchey and his late wife, Mary, responsible for killing one of their number in 1983. There is no glory or anything to this. Dessie OHare leaving the Special Criminal Court, Dublin. Paul was jailed for 14 years after attempting to assassinate the Reverend Overend in 1976whom the INLA would later try and blow up on McGlinchey's orders; he later stood against Sinn Fin in the 2007 Assembly election. The focus, he said, was on portraying McGlinchey was different from the brand of Irish republicanism that was increasingly becoming part of mainstream political discourse. The oration was delivered byBernadette McAliskey. Although he rejected accusations of involvement in the murder, he claimedin the words of the Extradition Act of 1965that the Toomebridge operation had been "a political offence or an offence connected with a political offence". Kriss Donald The Brutal Racist Killing of an InnocentSchoolboy. There were failed operations, and McGlincheywho believed that this was the result of an informer in the ranksdevoted much time and energy to finding the cause. McGlincheys balaclava had slits for his eyes and stretched below his chin; he wore a combat jacket, and a shoulder holster resting on his chest contained a .44 magnum revolver. 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The largest mainstream left-wing political party in the Republic, Fianna Fail, "kept an uneasy silence while some backbenchers protested" against it, while the Taoiseach gave it his "vigorous backing". He was convicted of hijacking a police vehicle and threatening officers with a gun. The Attorney General is consulting with the coroner for Co. Louth on whether he should order a new inquest into the murder of Mary McGlinchey in 1987. At the debriefing of the surviving volunteers, an attendee later recalled, McGlinchey "went mad and called us all stupid cunts". He had served seven of his 10-year sentence. We investigated it at the time but we got nowhere and were not looking at it any more.". McGlinchey not only lacked McGuinness's restraint, said Johnston, but would "shoot his own mother and all the rest of it". Vincent Browne asked McGlinchey what he thought would happen to him eventually. Pacemaker Press Intl. However, they were led to waiting gunmen and shot dead. The Irish Brigade's ballad, "Hands Up, Trousers Down" referenced McGlinchey's treatment of the Garda while on the run. Pictures of sons Declan and Dominic who witnessed the shooting, father of Mary Mr Paddy McNeill carrying the coffin as it arrives home in Toomebridge. McGlinchey told his own story in an extraordinary interview with the Dublin Sunday Tribune newspaper in 1983. McGlinchey summed up his own approach as being "to do what had to be done and don't think about it thereafter". The INLA had previously concentrated on security force targets, in 1979 killing Airey Neave, the Conservative spokesman on Northern Ireland. Dominic McGlinchey was shot 14 times in Statistical breakdown of deaths in the Troubles of Northern Ireland 1969 2001, Irish National Liberation Army ( I.N.L.A), Irish Republican Army. Since Northern Ireland's creation in 1922, the Catholic minority had suffered from varying degrees of discrimination from the Protestant and Unionist majority. Web00:01:54. The author Martin Dillon met McGlinchey in the mid-1980s and described him as "six feet tall, and lean, with a receding hairline. Funeral of dissident Republican Tommy Crossan after he was murdered in west Belfast last week. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The presiding judge, Mr Justice MacMahon commented during his sentencing that "it was to his credit" that MvGlinchey had not fired on the Garda although having had many opportunities to do so. Now aged 62 and having developed interests in yoga and crafts, OHare has aged remarkably well. The murder of Macduff's family in act IV scene ii, comments the director Tom Magill, "draws heavily" on the 1987 murder of Mary McGlinchey while bathing her children. Republic of Ireland 's maximum-security Portlaoise prison all over the island developed interests in yoga and,! 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