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The murderer, Malcolm Edward MacArthur, born 17 April 1945, was a well-known eccentric character in Dublin social circles and never held a job, as he lived off his IR£70,000 inheritance (the equivalent of almost €900,000 in 2023) from the sale of his father's farm after the latter's death in 1971. [4]
Three days later, he shot and killed farmer Dónal Dunne with his own shotgun before eventually being apprehended at the residence of then-Attorney General Patrick Connolly, where MacArthur had been staying as a houseguest for some time. The incident became the subject of the phrase GUBU. [15] Murder of Charles Self: 1: Monkstown, County Dublin
Connolly resigned on 17 August 1982 after Malcolm MacArthur, who had been a house-guest of Connolly's, was arrested for murder. [4] [5] MacArthur, the domestic partner of Connolly's friend Brenda Little, had committed a horrific double murder in the midst of a botched carjacking and robbery in 1982. Though Connolly was not implicated in the ...
The central events of the murder and subsequent flight are based on the 1982 case of Malcolm Edward MacArthur, who killed a young nurse in Dublin during the course of stealing her car. MacArthur, a well-known eccentric in the city's social circles, took refuge (as a guest) at the home of Patrick Connolly , then the Irish Attorney General ...
McDowell was a junior counsel on the legal team that defended the murderer Malcolm MacArthur in the notorious GUBU case. In 2002, McDowell excused himself from considering MacArthur's parole report, to avoid any possible conflict of interest arising from this representation. [3] He was appointed a senior counsel in 1987.
[1] 26 December – The UVF plant a bomb at the Daniel O'Connell statue on O'Connell Street. Little damage was done to the statue but the blast smashed windows in a half-mile radius. [2] 28 December – The UVF detonate a bomb outside the Garda Síochána central detective bureau in Dublin. The nearby telephone exchange headquarters is ...
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Multiple commentators invoked the term GUBU (grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented) to describe the Garda phone recordings controversy. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] GUBU is an acronym particular to Hiberno-English , denoting superlative infamy and drawing comparisons to the original GUBU scandal .