Post by dangeresque on Feb 9, 2008 16:54:25 GMT
Fallen Comrade of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement
Dominic McGlinchey
Assassinated on 10 February 1994
Dominic McGlinchey was born in 1954 into a County Derry family with a
strong republican background.
He was interned without trial from August 1971 to June 1972 in the
British prison camps of Ballykelly and Long Kesh. He was imprisoned
again in 1973 on arms charges.
Following his release, he joined an independent paramilitary unit in
South Derry along with Ian Milne and future Provisional IRA hunger
striker Francis Hughes. Their activities led the Royal Ulster
Constabulary to take the unusual step of issuing wanted posters.
In the midst of his paramilitary career, he married Mary McNeill on 5
July 1975. The couple had three children: Declan, Dominic, and Marie
(who died as an infant). Mary would later join the Irish National
Liberation Army with her husband.
He was arrested by the Irish police in 1977 and charged with hijacking
a police vehicle, threatening a police officer with a gun, and
resisting arrest. While serving time in Portlaoise Prison, he clashed
with the PIRA leadership and ended his affiliation with that
organisation.
Upon his release, he joined the INLA in 1982 as operations officer for
South Derry and within six months was promoted to chief of staff. He
made an immediate impact, putting an end to dissension within the
organisation and building it up throughout the country.
Actions carried out during this period included the bombing of the
Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork, which was providing
assistance to NATO in violation of Irish neutrality; the bombing of
the Droppin' Well Bar, which catered to British military personnel;
and numerous other attacks on British military personnel, RUC
personnel, and loyalist paramilitary figures.
He was arrested again on St. Patrick's Day, 1984, in County Clare,
and was extradited to the North of Ireland the same night, where he
was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. In October
1985, the Belfast Appeals Court overturned the conviction on the
grounds of insufficient evidence and he was returned to the South to
be sentenced to ten years in Portlaoise on firearms charges.
While he was in prison, his wife, Mary, was murdered on 31 January
1987 by unknown assailants.
After his final release from prison in March of 1993, he began
investigating claims that the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force was
involved in money laundering with Irish criminals and began working
with activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. In June of that year, he
survived an assassination attempt by UVF member Billy Wright (who was
later executed by the INLA in 1997).
On 10 February 1994, McGlinchey was making a call from a phone box in
Drogheda when two unknown men got out of a vehicle and shot him
fourteen times.
At his funeral, McAliskey eulogised him as "the finest republican of
them all. He never dishonoured the cause he believed in. His war was
with the armed soldiers and police of this state."
www.irsm.org/fallen/mcglinchey/dominic.html
Dominic McGlinchey
Assassinated on 10 February 1994
Dominic McGlinchey was born in 1954 into a County Derry family with a
strong republican background.
He was interned without trial from August 1971 to June 1972 in the
British prison camps of Ballykelly and Long Kesh. He was imprisoned
again in 1973 on arms charges.
Following his release, he joined an independent paramilitary unit in
South Derry along with Ian Milne and future Provisional IRA hunger
striker Francis Hughes. Their activities led the Royal Ulster
Constabulary to take the unusual step of issuing wanted posters.
In the midst of his paramilitary career, he married Mary McNeill on 5
July 1975. The couple had three children: Declan, Dominic, and Marie
(who died as an infant). Mary would later join the Irish National
Liberation Army with her husband.
He was arrested by the Irish police in 1977 and charged with hijacking
a police vehicle, threatening a police officer with a gun, and
resisting arrest. While serving time in Portlaoise Prison, he clashed
with the PIRA leadership and ended his affiliation with that
organisation.
Upon his release, he joined the INLA in 1982 as operations officer for
South Derry and within six months was promoted to chief of staff. He
made an immediate impact, putting an end to dissension within the
organisation and building it up throughout the country.
Actions carried out during this period included the bombing of the
Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork, which was providing
assistance to NATO in violation of Irish neutrality; the bombing of
the Droppin' Well Bar, which catered to British military personnel;
and numerous other attacks on British military personnel, RUC
personnel, and loyalist paramilitary figures.
He was arrested again on St. Patrick's Day, 1984, in County Clare,
and was extradited to the North of Ireland the same night, where he
was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. In October
1985, the Belfast Appeals Court overturned the conviction on the
grounds of insufficient evidence and he was returned to the South to
be sentenced to ten years in Portlaoise on firearms charges.
While he was in prison, his wife, Mary, was murdered on 31 January
1987 by unknown assailants.
After his final release from prison in March of 1993, he began
investigating claims that the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force was
involved in money laundering with Irish criminals and began working
with activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. In June of that year, he
survived an assassination attempt by UVF member Billy Wright (who was
later executed by the INLA in 1997).
On 10 February 1994, McGlinchey was making a call from a phone box in
Drogheda when two unknown men got out of a vehicle and shot him
fourteen times.
At his funeral, McAliskey eulogised him as "the finest republican of
them all. He never dishonoured the cause he believed in. His war was
with the armed soldiers and police of this state."
www.irsm.org/fallen/mcglinchey/dominic.html