Martin Cahill
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Martin Cahill was an Irish crime boss from Dublin. Known as "The General", Cahill masterminded a series of burglaries and armed robberies in Ireland throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He was shot and kil
Cahill in the mid-1980s
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in N
Martin Cahill
…burglaries and armed robberies in Ireland throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He was shot and killed in 1994 while out on bail for kidnapping charges. The Provisional Irish Republican Army took responsibility for Cahill's murder but no one was ever arrested or formally charged. He was born in a slum district just off Mountjoy Square on…
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