Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An Aérospatiale Alouette II, the type of helicopter used in the escape. The Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape occurred on 31 October 1973 when three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland, by boarding a hijacked helicopter that briefly landed in the prison's exercise yard.
Several inmates were able to escape when a helicopter plucked them from the prison. The escape prompted the Puerto Rico House Government Committee to pass a regulation that allowed penal officials to fire on any helicopter aiding an escape attempt. [34] Plans for the escape have been attributed to drug dealer Papo Cachete, who died during 2019.
Mountjoy Prison (Irish: Príosún Mhuinseo), founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security men's prison located in Phibsborough in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. [1] The current prison Governor is Ray Murtagh.
In 1973, three Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escaped in the Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape, when a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. In 1974, Thomas Knight, a man awaiting trial for a double murder, escaped from the Miami-Dade County Jail, along with ten other ...
From there she was sent to Mountjoy Prison. In October 1921, she famously escaped from Mountjoy Jail with three other women, Mae Burke, Eileen Keogh, and Eithne Coyle . [ 4 ] The escape had been personally arranged by Michael Collins, and it made international headlines, featuring in the New York Times on 31 October 1921 under the heading "Four ...
The song was immediately prohibited from being played on RTÉ stations [1] or was severely restricted, [2] sources vary. Despite that, the song sold 12,000 single records in the first week of release, taking it to the number one position in the Irish Singles Chart on 22 November 1973, and held that position for four weeks, [1] until it was replaced by Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody.
On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he had ...
Three weeks later, on 31 October 1973, the IRA organised the helicopter escape of Twomey and his fellow IRA members J.B. O'Hagan and Kevin Mallon, when an active service unit hijacked and forced the pilot at gun-point to land the helicopter in the training yard of Mountjoy Prison. [7] After his escape, he returned to his membership of IRA's ...