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The acronym GUBU, standing for grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented, refers to a strange series of incidents in Ireland in the summer of 1982 which culminated in a double-murderer, Malcolm MacArthur, being apprehended in the home of the then-Attorney General, Patrick Connolly.
In 1982, Malcolm Macarthur, an Irish aristocrat and heir, was in financial trouble. With a vague plan to rob a bank, he bought a crossbow, a tweed fisherman’s hat, and called his mother.
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.
The Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company (DADC) was founded in June 1876 [1] in response to the shortage of suitable housing for the working class in Dublin at affordable rents.
Malcolm Darnell Guss Jr. is accused of using a fully automatic AR-style rifle to shoot at two police officers on July 3 during a traffic stop just south of Los Angeles.