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Wright was killed less than 18 months after McGoldrick's death by the Irish National Liberation Army in Long Kesh prison, and his group disbanded in August 1998. Clifford George McKeown was ultimately found guilty of the murder of McGoldrick. He was represented in court by former DUP member Jim Allister QC. [16]
9 July 1996 - Michael McGoldrick (31), a Catholic civilian, found in his cab in a remote lane at Aghagallon, near Lurgan, a day after having picked up a fare in the town. He had been shot five times in the head. Both the UVF and the UDA released statements emphatically denying involvement in McGoldrick's killing.
The Mid-Ulster Brigade carried out two of the most notorious attacks in the history of the Troubles. The first took place on 17 May 1974. Organised and led by Billy Hanna, with Robin Jackson of the Lurgan unit playing a key role, the Mid-Ulster Brigade, along with a team from Belfast, planted three car bombs in Dublin.
An Ohio mother is mourning the loss of her two adult children and is focused on getting them "justice" after they were both shot and killed this week. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, after 7 p.m. local time ...
Death on the Rock – an edition of This Week about the Gibraltar killings, produced by Thames Television for ITV, shown on 28 April 1988. Nineteen 96 – a BBC1 Screen One drama, broadcast on BBC1 on 17 September 1989 which, in relocating the Stalker inquiry to Wales in 1996 and combining it with some elements of the Kincora boys' home scandal ...
Although behind many attacks in the Mid-Ulster area, especially in Portadown and Lurgan, Wright was finally arrested in January 1997 for issuing death threats and perverting the course of justice. He was convicted in March 1997 and sentenced to eight years in the Maze Prison. [21] [22] There he demanded a separate wing for LVF prisoners.
11 April: Following a week of rioting in Loyalist communities, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), reportedly orders the removal of Catholic families from a housing estate in Carrickfergus. [249] 1 November: a bus was hijacked and burnt by armed men in Abbot Drive in Newtownards, County Down. Police blamed a local faction of the UVF. [250]
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