1121:; he was taken to Armagh Police Station. This was when the amended information regarding his fingerprints was delivered to Detective Superintendent Ernest Drew at Armagh. Drew and Detective Constable William Elder both questioned him; Jackson denied ever having been at Sinclair's farm whilst admitting knowing him through the Portadown Loyalist Club which they both frequented. When shown the Luger, silencer and magazine (but not the insulating tape), Jackson denied having handled them. When asked by Detective Superintendent Drew to provide an explanation should his fingerprints be discovered on either pistol or silencer, Jackson told him that one night at the Portadown Loyalist Club, Sinclair had asked him for some adhesive tape and Jackson claimed, "I gave him part of the roll I was using in the bar".
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Miami
Showband trumpeter Brian McCoy was shot nine times in the back with a Luger pistol. The Miami inquiry team was never informed of these developments and Jackson was never questioned about the Miami Showband killings following the discovery of his fingerprints on the silencer. The Luger pistol serial no. U 4 was later destroyed by the RUC on 28 August 1978. Barney O'Dowd claimed RUC detectives in the 1980s admitted to him that Jackson had been the man who shot the three O'Dowd men, but the evidence had not been sufficient to charge him with the killings. In 2006, Barney O'Dowd spoke at the public hearings of the
953:(PSNI) to investigate some of the more controversial Troubles-related deaths, released their report on the Miami Showband killings to the victims' families in December 2011. The findings noted in this report confirmed that Jackson was linked to the killings. It also stated that during police interrogations, Jackson had claimed that after the shootings a senior RUC officer had advised him to "lie low". Although this information was passed on to RUC headquarters and its Complaints and Discipline Department, nothing was done about it. The HET Report identified Jackson as having been an RUC Special Branch agent.
1184:, and he named Jackson as having been the gunman, alleging that Jackson had told him after the shooting that he had shot Strathearn twice when the latter opened the door. Weir and McCaughey had waited in Weir's car while the shooting was carried out. The gun that Jackson used had been given to him by McCaughey, with the instructions that he was only to fire through an upstairs window to frighten the occupants and make sure they "got the message", and not to kill anyone. As in the Dublin bombings, Jackson's poultry lorry was also employed on this occasion, specifically to transport himself and
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the aim of assassinating them. Jackson, according to Weir, carried a knife and hammer, and boasted to Weir that if they happened to "find a suitable person to kill", he "knew how to do it with those weapons". They approached the houses of two IRA men; however, the plan to attack them was aborted and they drove back to Lurgan. They were stopped at an RUC roadblock near the
Republic of Ireland border, but the three men were waved through, after an exchange of courtesies, despite the presence of Jackson in the car with two RUC officers.
1014:, Holyroyd claimed that Nairac had organised the Miami Showband ambush in collaboration with Jackson, and had also been present at Buskhill when the attack was carried out. Bassist Stephen Travers and saxophonist Des McAlea, the two bandmembers who survived the shootings, both testified in court that a British Army officer "with a crisp, clipped English accent" had overseen the operation. However, when shown a photograph of Nairac, Travers could not positively identify him as the soldier who had been at the scene. Martin Dillon in
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clearance to target principal members of the Mid-Ulster UVF despite an increase in paramilitary activity from the organisation. In June 1974, a month after the bombings, Wallace was denied permission to target key loyalists including
Jackson and Hanna, as their names were on a list that excluded them from being targeted for psychological operations. This appeared to indicate that in practice, those members of paramilitaries whose names were listed were also excluded from being targeted for prosecution.
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1976 allegedly by
Jackson for having passed on information to the RUC about the people involved in the Showband attack. The Douglass Cassel panel of inquiry stated that it was unclear why Jackson, Crozier and Neill had not been in police custody at the time the Showband killings took place. The panel concluded that there was "credible evidence that the principal perpetrator was a man who was not prosecuted – alleged RUC Special Branch agent Robin Jackson". Former British soldier and
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tape wrapped around the silencer used with the Luger. Jackson went on to say that he was forewarned, using the words: "I should clear as there was a wee job up the country that I would be done for and there was no way out of it for me". On 2 June, Jackson was charged with possession of a firearm, a magazine, four rounds of ammunition and a silencer with intent to endanger life. He was detained in custody and went to trial on 11 November 1976 at a
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Somerville. On 5 August 1975, Jackson was taken in and questioned by the RUC as a suspect in the Miami Showband killings; he was subsequently released two days later without facing any charges. In October 1976, two serving members of the UDR (Thomas Crozier and James McDowell) received life sentences for the killings. A third man, former UDR soldier, John James Somerville was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 1981.
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and his bandmates in retaliation. She also suggests that it was
Jackson who shot McCoy dead in the first volley of gunfire and it was the gunman, surviving bassist Stephen Travers heard, kicking McCoy's dead body afterwards as well as firing another round into him. She based her theories on the nine bullets that had been fired from a Luger into McCoy and that Jackson's fingerprints were found on the silencer that was used for a Luger.
788:, County Monaghan. On the evening of 10 January 1975, gunmen kicked down the front door of the "safe" house Green was staying in and, finding him alone in the living room, immediately opened fire, shooting him six times in the head at close range. The bullets all entered from the front, which indicated that Green had been facing his killers. The UVF claimed responsibility for the killing in the June 1975 edition of its publication,
1295:, dubbed Jackson the "Lord High Executioner of the North's notorious murder triangle", adding that he was infamous from Belfast to the Irish border for "the intensity and fury of his instinct to kill". A former UDR soldier who had served with Jackson described him as a sectarian killer who had a visceral hatred of Catholics but that "you were always glad to have him with you when you were out on patrol".
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343:, County Down, 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Lurgan. In the late 1960s he married Eileen Maxwell, by whom he had a son and two daughters. When the marriage later failed he began a serious relationship with another woman. Jackson made a living by working in a shoe factory and delivering chickens for the Moy Park food processing company throughout most of the 1970s.
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bombings, and members of both the UDR and Mid-Ulster UVF, were accidentally blown up as they placed a bomb under the driver's seat of the band's minibus which had been parked in a lay-by. The minibus, driven by trumpeter Brian McCoy (a
Protestant from Caledon, County Tyrone), had been flagged-down by UVF men wearing British Army uniforms at a bogus roadside military
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registration number CIA 2771 – were involved in the bombing; yet there were no witnesses who reported having seen the car. The RUC stated that
Jackson had been observed celebrating at a Banbridge bar at 9.00 pm on the evening of the attack in the company of other loyalist extremists. The implication was that they were celebrating the Kay's Tavern bombing.
842:, Mulholland was identified by three eyewitnesses. Tiernan also suggested that Hanna and Mulholland became informers for the Gardaí regarding the car bombings in exchange for immunity from prosecution. He added that although the British Army was aware of this, Jackson was never told, as it was feared he would decide to become an informer himself.
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suspect that he was involved in murders set up by military contacts at that time. In the late 1970s, he was a binge drinker and sometimes boasted to UVF associates of "someone looking after me". Some took this as a reference to God or even the Devil, but the most likely explanation is that it referred to members of the Army's intelligence corps.
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Engineers, one of the three sub-units of 14th Intelligence. This unit was based in Castledillon, County Armagh, and according to Holroyd, was the cover name of an SAS troop commanded by Nairac and Captain Julian Antony "Tony" Ball. Nairac was himself abducted and killed by the IRA in 1977, and Ball was killed in an accident in
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756:, an additional seven people were killed instantly or fatally injured by a fourth car bomb which had been delivered by a team from the Mid-Ulster UVF's Portadown unit. According to Joe Tiernan, this attack was carried out to draw the Gardaí away from the border, enabling the Dublin bombers to cross back into Northern Ireland undetected.
2286:, p. 287. Mr Justice Barron concluded in his report regarding the Dublin and Monaghan car bombings: "It is likely that the farm of James Mitchell at Glenanne played a significant part in the preparation for the attacks . It is also likely that members of the UDR and RUC either participated in, or were aware of those preparations"..
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dark-haired, blue-eyed, "small, but firmly-built". Suspicious by nature, he repeatedly advised his associates that they should never reveal secret information to anyone. His paranoia and fear of recognition by his potential victims was such that he attempted to destroy all photographs of himself including school and family pictures.
710:. Upon their return, Jackson and Hanna went back to the soup kitchen they were running at a Mourneville, Lurgan bingo hall. With the UWC strike in its third day, it was extremely difficult for people throughout Northern Ireland to obtain necessities such as food. Neither man's absence had been noticed by the other helpers.
216:, Jackson is alleged to have organised and committed a series of killings, mainly against Catholic civilians, although he was never convicted in connection with any killing and never served any lengthy prison terms. At least 50 killings in Northern Ireland have been attributed to him, according to Stephen Howe (in the
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Miami
Showband ambush took place. On 17 May 1974 he was on a months-long training course in England; 10 January 1975 there were three witnesses who placed him on temporary duty in Derry for a secret mission; and on 31 July 1975 at 4am he had started on a road journey from London to Scotland for a fishing holiday.
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Wallace also named Jackson as having been "centrally-involved" in the Dublin bombings, but like Weir, suggested that the principal organiser had been Billy Hanna. Wallace's psychological operations unit typically targeted loyalist extremists; however, during the period of 1973 and 1974 he was refused
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Sub-Committee on the Barron Report Debate. He maintained that in June 1976 an RUC detective came to see him at his home and told him the gunman could not be charged with the killings as he was the "head of the UVF" and a "hard man" who could not be broken during police interrogation. Additionally the
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held at Belfast City Commission, charged only with possession of the silencer. Although the judge initially rejected his defence that his fingerprints were on the insulating tape and had "been innocently transferred to the silencer", he managed to avoid conviction when he was acquitted of the charge.
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Justice Barron himself questioned Holroyd's evidence as a result of two later Garda investigations, where Detective Inspector Culhane discounted Holroyd's allegations regarding Nairac and the polaroid photograph. Culhane concluded that the latter had been one of a series of official photographs taken
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was aware of Jackson and Kerr's involvement in the Strathearn killing, and that they were not prosecuted for "operational reasons". Mr. Justice Barron was highly critical of the RUC's failure to properly investigate Jackson. Weir declared "I think it is important to make it clear that this collusion
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with an attached silencer. The findings noted in the HET Report on the Miami Showband killings revealed that on 19 May 1976, two fingerprints belonging to Jackson were discovered on the metal barrel of a home-made silencer constructed for a Luger pistol. Both the silencer and Luger, as well as more
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container used by loyalists in prior car bombings. Twenty-three people were killed outright in the blasts, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child; three more people would later die of their injuries. The bodies of the dead were mostly unrecognisable. One girl who had been near the epicentre
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After Jackson's death, one of his friends told Gorrod that Jackson had no regrets about his UVF activities, but that due to his religious upbringing he was tormented by feelings of remorse on his deathbed, believing that he had been "drawn into a world of evil that wasn't of his making". One of his
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A man whose description matched Jackson's was seen behaving suspiciously in the vicinity of Lurgan RUC barracks close to where three prominent republicans were later ambushed and shot by masked UVF gunmen after they left the police station on 7 March 1990. The republicans had been signing in at the
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Weir stated in his affidavit that on one occasion some months after he was transferred to Newry RUC station in October 1976, Jackson himself, and another RUC officer and "Glenanne gang" member, Gary Armstrong, went on a reconnaissance in south Armagh seeking out the homes of known IRA members, with
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and the security forces. According to Griffin's theory, Jackson had on an earlier date, approached McCoy with a proposal to secure his help in carrying out UVF attacks in the Irish Republic. When McCoy refused, Jackson saw this as a betrayal of the loyalist cause so devised the plan to ambush McCoy
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on 31 July 1975, which left band members Brian McCoy, Fran O'Toole and Tony Geraghty dead. Two others, Stephen Travers and Des McAlea, were wounded. Journalist Hugh Jordan also confirmed Jackson's presence at the Miami Showband ambush. Harris Boyle and Wesley Somerville, both suspects in the Dublin
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who was gunned down on his doorstep. Jackson's words after he was charged with the killing were: "Nothing. I just can't believe it". Campbell's wife, Margaret had opened the door to the gunman and his accomplice when they had come looking for her husband. She had got a good look at the two men, who
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sent to shoot Campbell on behalf of an RUC Special Branch officer. Weir, in his affidavit, claimed Jackson, prior to Campbell's shooting, had informed him of the RUC officer's request. Jackson, by then dying of cancer, told Campbell's son that he had not been involved in the killing. The UVF, at a
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Jackson had allegedly been using the tape whilst lapping hoses for beer kegs at the bar. In his statement to Detective Superintendent Drew, Jackson claimed that one week prior to his arrest, two high-ranking RUC officers had tipped him off about his fingerprints having been found on the insulating
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In 2015, a biography of Nairac entitled "Betrayal: the Murder of Robert Nairac" was published. Written by former diplomat Alistair Kerr, the book provides documentary evidence that shows Nairac as having been elsewhere at the time of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, John Francis Green killing and
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Club. When he stepped out of the car, Jackson and another man approached him. After asking them "What are you playing at?" Jackson produced a pistol, walked over, and shot him twice in the head; once in the temple and afterwards in the back of the head, execution-style as he lay on the ground. His
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questioned him about UVF motives for the 1974 Dublin attacks. Ervine replied they were "returning the serve". Ervine, although he had not participated in the bombings, explained that the UVF had wanted the Catholics across the border in the Republic of Ireland to suffer as Protestants in Northern
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newspaper's Northern Ireland editor Jim Campbell when he investigated and exposed Jackson's alleged paramilitary activities – including his involvement in the Miami Showband killings – and links to British Military Intelligence. In retaliation, Jackson reportedly approached members of the violent
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Jackson had many allies still serving in the UDR and close links to special forces soldiers. These included Bunny Dearsley of military intelligence and Robert Nairac, Tony Ball, and other soldiers attached to the undercover 14th Intelligence Unit. These officers met him at a bar in Moira and many
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and the common police consensus is that to arrest and interview either man is a waste of time. Both men are known to police to be very active and notorious UVF murderers. Nevertheless the police do not recommend consideration of withdrawal of charges against Weir. I agree with this view. Weir and
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On 11 June 1975, more than a month prior to the Miami Showband killings, Jackson, his brother-in-law, Samuel Fulton Neill, and Thomas Crozier had been arrested for the possession of four shotguns. Neill's car was later used in the Showband ambush. Neill was fatally shot in Portadown on 25 January
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Jackson was questioned following the Yorkshire Television programme and he denied any involvement in the Dublin attacks. His name had appeared on a Garda list of suspects for the bombings. Hanna's name was on both the Garda and the RUC's list of suspects; however, neither of the two men were ever
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procured from original RUC reports and presented to Justice Barron, the 9 mm Luger pistol, serial no. U 4 for which the silencer was specifically made, was established as having been the same one used in the Miami Showband and John Francis Green killings. According to journalist Tom McGurk,
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noted that although Weir maintained that Jackson and Billy Hanna had links to Nairac and British Military Intelligence, his claim did not imply that the British Army or Military Intelligence had aided the two men in the planning and perpetration of the 1974 Dublin bombings. While in prison, Weir
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claimed that Nairac admitted to having been involved in John Francis Green's death and had shown Holroyd a colour polaroid photograph of Green's corpse to back up his claim. Holroyd believed that for some months leading up to his shooting, Green had been kept under surveillance by 4 Field Survey
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Jackson had assumed command of the Mid-Ulster UVF just a few days before the attack, when he allegedly shot Hanna to death on 27 July. As previously stated, Harris Boyle had reportedly accompanied Jackson to the shooting. Jackson had afterwards attended Hanna's funeral, where he was photographed
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According to submissions received by Mr. Justice Barron, on the morning of 17 May 1974, the day of the bombings, Jackson collected the three bombs and placed them in suitcases onto his poultry lorry at James Mitchell's farm in Glenanne, which had been used for the construction and storage of the
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home on 30 May 1998; he was buried on 1 June in a private ceremony in the St Bartholomew Church of Ireland churchyard in his native Donaghmore, County Down. His grave, close to that of his parents, is unmarked apart from a steel poppy cross. He was 49 years old. His father had died in 1985; his
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were directly named. Although the incriminating evidence against Jackson had comprised eight hours of recorded testimony which came from one of his purported chief accomplices in the bombings, the programme did not name him directly during the transmission as the station did not want to risk an
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on 19 December 1975, which killed two men. Barron implicated the "Glenanne gang" in the bombing, however, Jackson was not identified by any eyewitnesses at or in the vicinity of Kay's Tavern. Gardaí received information from a reliable source that Jackson and his car – a Vauxhall Viva with the
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list of suspects as the organiser of the hijackings in Belfast on the morning of the bombings. The cars, after being obtained by the gang of hijackers, known as "Freddie and the Dreamers", were driven from Belfast across the border to the carpark, retaining their original registration numbers.
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The charges were allegedly withdrawn because the RUC thought Mrs. Campbell knew him beforehand. Jackson confirmed this, saying that they had met previously on account that he worked in the same Banbridge shoe factory (Down Shoes Ltd.) as Patrick Campbell. It was suggested in David McKittrick's
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verything people had whispered about Robin Jackson for years was perfectly true. He was a hired gun. A professional assassin. He was responsible for more deaths in the North than any other person I knew. The Jackal killed people for a living. The State not only knew that he was doing it. Its
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that sometime before the shooting there may have been a "minor political disagreement" between Jackson and Campbell while the two men were on a night out. The disagreement was allegedly over the stoppage of machinery following the deaths of three British soldiers. Raymond Murray, in his book
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Unnamed intelligence officers personally acquainted with Jackson stated that he was a psychopath who would often dress up and attend the funerals of his victims because he felt a need "to make sure they were dead." Described as a sardonic man who was extremely dedicated; physically he was
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1368:, British journalist Peter Taylor devotes pages 187–195 to the loyalists' South African arms deals which had taken place in the late 1980s. Jackson's name does not appear in the account nor is Australia referred to. Joe Gorrod is the only journalist to make these allegations although
489:. He later joined the UDR, serving as a permanent staff instructor (PSI) and holding the rank of sergeant. According to David McKittrick, he was dismissed from the regiment two years later "for UVF activity"; The regimental history of the UDR confirms this although journalist/author
2274:"The bombs, which were earlier stored at the home of a Protestant farmer near Markethill in Co. Armagh were transported across the border to Whitehall by Robin Jackson in a chicken lorry. Jackson drove a chicken lorry around Ireland for a living for a number of years in the 1970s".
512:) has implicated this gang in 87 killings which were carried out in the 1970s against Catholics and nationalists. The name, first used in 2003, is derived from a farm in Glenanne, County Armagh, which the UVF regularly used as an arms dump and bomb-making site. It was owned by
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last wishes was that the secret documents incriminating the politicians and businessmen with whom he associated be released to the public. Liam Clarke suggested the killing of Billy Hanna was the only killing Jackson ever regretted, admitting it had been "unfair" to kill him.
616:(UDA, Belfast), led one of the two UVF units that bombed Dublin on 17 May 1974 in three separate explosions, resulting in the deaths of 26 people, including two infant girls. Close to 300 others were injured in the blasts; many of them maimed and scarred for life. Journalist
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When the RUC had searched Jackson's house after his arrest they discovered 49 additional bullets to those allotted a serving member of the UDR. A notebook was also found which contained personal details of over two dozen individuals including their car registration numbers.
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The 2006 Interim Report named Jackson as having possibly been one of the two gunmen in the shooting death of the McKearney couple on 23 October 1975. Peter McKearney was shot between 14 and 18 times, and his wife, Jenny 11 times. The shooting took place at their home in
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RUC Station. Although medical evidence presented at the trial of the accused Detective Constables raised the possibility that Jackson's injuries were self-inflicted, on 23 December 1975 a magistrate upheld the charge against the two CID men and they were fined £10 each.
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The trial judge, Mr. Justice Murray, had said: "At the end of the day I find that the accused somehow touched the silencer, but the Crown evidence has left me completely in the dark as to whether he did that wittingly or unwittingly, willingly or unwillingly".
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and if no intelligence was found to suggest unsuitability, individuals were passed for recruitment and would remain as soldiers until the commanding officer was provided with intelligence enabling him to remove soldiers with paramilitary links or sympathies.
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1397:(LVF) in 1996. This was after he and his Portadown unit had been stood down by the UVF's Brigade Staff in Belfast on 2 August 1996, following the unauthorised killing of a Catholic taxi driver by members of Wright's group outside Lurgan during the
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stated that Weir had made an offer to testify against Jackson and Robert John "R.J". Kerr, but only on the condition that the murder charge against him was withdrawn. This offer was refused by the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions who said
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Ireland had suffered on account of the intensive bombing campaign waged by the Provisional IRA. On 28 May 1974, 11 days after the bombings, the UWC strike ended with the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the power-sharing Executive.
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after two men knocked on his door at 2.00 am on 19 April 1977 claiming to need medicine for a sick child. Strathearn lived above his chemist's shop. Weir was one of the RUC men later convicted of the killing, along with his SPG colleague,
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Journalist Joe Tiernan suggested that the bombs were activated by Hanna. Sometime before 4.00 p.m., Jackson and Hanna headed back to Northern Ireland in the poultry lorry after the latter had given the final instructions to the drivers of the
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stated that he was told in 1974 that Jackson was working as an agent for the RUC's Special Branch. He confirmed this allegation in a letter written to a colleague dated 14 August 1975 in which he named Jackson as an RUC Special Branch agent.
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and South Leinster Street, almost simultaneously at approximately 5.30 pm. No warnings were given. From the available forensic evidence derived from material traces at the scene, the bombs are believed to have contained, as their main
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Jackson was never questioned about the killing. According to an RUC detective, he was not interrogated for "reasons of operational strategy". Weir suggested that "Jackson was untouchable because he was an RUC Special Branch agent."
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arrested or interrogated in connection with the bombings. The submissions made to the Barron Inquiry also stated that one week before the Dublin attacks, Jackson and others had been stopped at a Garda checkpoint at Hackballs Cross.
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families in County Armagh, leaving a total of five men dead and one injured. Weir maintained that it was Jackson who shot 61-year-old Joseph O'Dowd and his two nephews, Barry and Declan, to death at a family celebration in
1378:) affirmed that Jackson lived for a period of time in South Africa during the 1980s. The purported files, which were kept with a friend, would have ensured Jackson that he would never be sentenced to lengthy imprisonment.
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had been in the process of writing a book about Jackson but O'Hagan's assassination by the LVF in 2001 prevented its completion. Along with Billy Hanna and other senior loyalists, Jackson was commemorated in the UVF song
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at Oldbridge. The route had been well-rehearsed over the previous months. Hanna, then the Mid-Ulster UVF's commander and the principal organiser of the attacks, accompanied him. At the Coachman's Inn pub carpark on the
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that because a number of UDR/UVF men were to be used for the planned Miami Showband attack, the UVF considered Hanna to have been a "security risk", and therefore it had been necessary to kill him. David McKittrick in
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affirmed that the Dublin car bombings were carried out by two UVF units, one from Mid-Ulster, the other from Belfast. Davy Payne has never been subsequently accused of involvement in the bombings nor was the UDA.
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The bombers immediately fled from the destruction they had wrought in central Dublin in the two scout cars and made their way north using the "smuggler's route" of minor and back roads, crossing the border near
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as the band was returning home to Dublin after a performance in Banbridge. Following the premature detonation, which ripped the vehicle in half, the band members were then gunned down by the surviving UVF men.
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used in the killings. "Glenanne gang" member Garnet Busby pleaded guilty to the killings and was sentenced to life imprisonment. John Weir claimed that Jackson led the group who bombed Kay's Tavern pub in
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and Tony McCaughey were both wounded. Although the shooting was claimed by the UVF, the gunmen were never caught. Two UVF members were later convicted of having supplied the car used in the ambush.
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from a pub called The Spinning Wheel. However, when Jackson and Weir arrived, they discovered the publican had been warned of the kidnap plot and they were ordered to leave the premises.
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firearms, ammunition, a magazine, explosives, and bomb-making material, were found by the security forces at the farm of a man by the name of Edward Sinclair, a former member of the "
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maintained that Jackson, accompanied by Harris Boyle, had shot Hanna after learning that he had passed on information regarding the Dublin bombings. Martin Dillon also claims this in
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also made this allegation and averted to Jackson's involvement in the Dublin bombings. When questioned about the latter, Jackson denied involvement. Findings noted in a report by the
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in Northern Ireland. Gorrod wrote that Jackson kept hidden files that incriminated the politicians and businessmen who were involved with Jackson in the loyalist arms shipments.
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Designated by Weir the "most notorious paramilitary in Northern Ireland", at least 50 killings were directly attributed to Jackson, according to journalists Stephen Howe in the
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accusation of libel. The programme's narrator instead referred to him as "the Jackal". Hanna, Boyle, and McConnell were deceased at the time of the programme's airing.
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told that Nairac was with them. I was told by ... a UVF man, he was very close to Jackson and operated with him. Jackson told that Nairac was with them.
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in Belfast. Following his arrest in 1979 for possession of guns, ammunition, and hoods, Jackson was remanded in custody to the prison to await trial
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that also planned a greater role for the Republic of Ireland in the governance of Northern Ireland. In 2003, Weir's information was published in the
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secret meeting with journalists, declared that Jackson had no part in Campbell's killing. The case was later placed under investigation by the
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between loyalist paramilitaries such as Robin Jackson and my RUC colleagues and me was taking place with the full knowledge of my superiors".
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McCaughey must be proceeded against. When proceedings against them are terminated the position may be reviewed in respect of Jackson and Kerr.
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gang in Belfast, who (at Jackson's request) shot and seriously wounded Campbell on 18 May 1984. According to journalist Joe Gorrod of
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at Loughinisland were later found to have come from the South African arms shipment that had ended up in the hands of Robin Jackson.
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which occurred on 31 July 1975. Jackson was implicated in this attack which left three band members and two UVF men dead
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that Jackson was expelled from the UDR on 4 March 1974; by then he was discernibly involved in UVF activity. As the
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by joining one of the two main loyalist paramilitary organisations, the illegal UVF or the legal
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programme that Jackson had links to British Military Intelligence and Liaison officer Captain
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3218:Smith Dornan Dehn, Prentice v. McPhilemy,
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2565:. 12 March 2006; retrieved 25 January 2012
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354:. In 1972 he joined the locally recruited
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3515:"Victims seek YouTube ban for UVF song".
2722:
2561:"Notorious UVF unit 'to be stood down'".
2515:, cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 17 July 2014.
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656:also implicated Jackson in the bombings.
352:Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
2348:O'Maolfabhail, Donal (19 January 2003).
1647:"Cain Events: Dublin and Monaghan Bombs"
1442:mother outlived Jackson for five years.
291:Jackson was at one-time a member of the
4282:Donnelly's Bar and Kay's Tavern attacks
3657:The Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre
3493:, BBC News; retrieved 14 February 2011.
3401:. 3 January 2003; retrieved 2 May 2011.
3003:
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2997:
2613:
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2423:The Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre
2406:The Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre
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2350:"How loyalists got the bombs to Dublin"
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2254:The Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre
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1730:The Hidden Hand- The Forgotten Massacre
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1151:1977 and the William Strathearn killing
1084:ten Protestant workmen were gunned down
661:The Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre
465:Operating mainly around the Lurgan and
447:Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
3591:
3554:
3256:"RUC men's secret war against the IRA"
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920:After his arrest, Jackson accused two
204:From his home in the small village of
4481:Ulster Constitution Defence Committee
4288:October 1975 Northern Ireland attacks
3708:. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
3616:, Center for Civil and Human Rights,
3502:
3410:
3293:. 6 March 2012; retrieved 4 May 2012.
1883:"UVF Rules Out Jackal Link To Murder"
1725:
1723:
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510:Northwestern University School of Law
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3671:. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.
1985:, 16 May 1999; retrieved 6 May 2011.
1088:South Armagh Republican Action Force
540:Alleged shooting and bombing attacks
4524:indicates brigadiers and commanders
3037:"UVF Planned to Kill 30 Children".
2010:. Pen & Sword Books, Ltd. p. 90
1904:The Long War: The IRA and Sein Fein
1437:Jackson died of lung cancer at his
1285:, and David McKittrick in his book
1030:
813:mural. Robin Jackson led the UVF's
197:from 1975 to the early 1990s, when
181:(UVF) during the period of violent
16:Northern Irish loyalist (1948–1998)
4451:Combined Loyalist Military Command
3870:Unnamed Chief of Staff (1974–1975)
3371:"The policeman and 'the Jackal'".
1277:Reputation and further allegations
951:Police Service of Northern Ireland
378:(UVF), on King's Park camp, a UDR/
270:. Journalist Kevin Dowling in the
14:
4357:1994 Dublin-Belfast train bombing
3491:"Widow's Appeal Over RUC Killing"
3234:, p. 2; retrieved 8 January 2011.
1203:virtually immune to interrogation
922:Criminal Investigation Department
735:, packed into the usual metallic
516:, an RUC reservist. According to
500:Hanna's unit formed part of the "
4567:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
3744:The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings
534:Wesley and John James Somerville
366:, in Lurgan. He was attached to
346:The conflict that was known as "
31:
2321:. Joe Tiernan. 2 November 2003.
2149:, John Weir Affadavit [
949:(HET), which was set up by the
374:paramilitary organisation, the
99:, County Down, Northern Ireland
4562:Ulster Volunteer Force members
4501:Ulster Workers' Council strike
2550:Brits: the war against the IRA
1761:Sunday World (Dublin, Ireland)
1411:Irish National Liberation Army
957:Links to Captain Robert Nairac
193:. Jackson commanded the UVF's
1:
4241:1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings
3481:; retrieved 14 February 2011.
3399:National Union of Journalists
3375:by Liam Clarke. 7 March 1999.
3325:. 7 June 1998. Archived from
2006:Potter, John Furniss (2001).
1790:Dictionary of Irish Biography
817:from 1975 to the early 1990s.
626:Ulster Workers Council Strike
4252:Dublin and Monaghan bombings
4246:Rose & Crown Bar bombing
3659:, Yorkshire Television, 1993
3010:. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
2527:; retrieved 8 December 2010.
1732:, Yorkshire Television, 1993
1615:, Kevin Dowling, 4 June 1998
1473:Dublin and Monaghan bombings
1055:; Jackson was linked to the
827:wife witnessed the killing.
600:Dublin and Monaghan bombings
382:depot. It is alleged by the
319:family in the small, mainly
245:bombed Dublin on 17 May 1974
212:, a few miles south-east of
131:Brigade commander (UVF rank)
4506:Volunteer (Ulster loyalist)
3950:William "Frenchie" Marchant
3428:Gorrod, Joe (8 June 1998).
2939:. Tom Griffin. 15 July 2006
2575:"The Dundalk Bombing, 1975"
2155:], John Weir statement
695:William "Frenchie" Marchant
4588:
4466:Progressive Unionist Party
4293:Reavey and O'Dowd killings
4264:Bleary Darts Club shooting
4084:David Alexander Mulholland
3727:. Ireland: Mercier Press.
3663:McKittrick, David (1999).
3321:. The People (London) via
3111:Retrieved 17 December 2011
3050:Retrieved 26 February 2011
2427:; retrieved 7 October 2011
2272:. Joe Tiernan. 16 May 1999
2122:retrieved 30 January 2016.
2117:Cadwallader, Anne (2013).
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836:David Alexander Mulholland
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776:John Francis Green killing
765:Progressive Unionist Party
597:
439:Ulster Defence Association
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4511:Volunteer Political Party
4008:Harry "Harmless" Stockman
3827:
3778:
3766:
3758:
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3699:. Ireland: Mercier Press.
3462:Retrieved 5 November 2016
2991:, pp. 171, 182, 190.
2968:News Letter (Belfast, UK)
2941:Retrieved 3 February 2011
2874:. Hull: Medium. pp.78–79.
1902:O'Brien, Brendan (1999).
1418:Cushendall, County Antrim
1389:Succeeded by Billy Wright
1345:, it was reported in the
975:14th Intelligence Company
947:Historical Enquiries Team
638:Northern Ireland Assembly
545:Patrick Campbell shooting
311:Early life and UDR career
286:Historical Enquiries Team
249:Royal Ulster Constabulary
30:
4461:Loyalist Volunteer Force
4363:Quinn brothers' killings
4258:1975 Conway's Bar attack
4187:Young Citizen Volunteers
3695:Murray, Raymond (1990).
3686:McPhilemy, Sean (1998).
3652:. Lincoln, NE: Universe.
2410:Retrieved 7 October 2011
2356:. Dublin. Archived from
2323:Retrieved 12 April 2012.
2258:Retrieved 7 October 2011
1395:Loyalist Volunteer Force
1214:that Northern Ireland's
1140:Houses of the Oireachtas
998:'s Photography Section.
853:. Dillon also stated in
485:when he served with the
315:Jackson was born into a
4552:People from County Down
4346:1991 Craigavon killings
4276:Miami Showband killings
4182:Protestant Action Force
3991:Robert "Squeak" Seymour
3887:Belfast Brigade members
3639:Dillon, Martin (1991).
3519:. Belfast. 23 May 2010.
3434:The Mirror (London, UK)
2709:Dillon, Martin (2003).
1478:Miami Showband killings
1409:on 27 December 1997 by
1289:. Kevin Dowling in the
1186:Robert John "R.J." Kerr
1057:Sterling submachine gun
885:Miami Showband killings
875:Miami Showband killings
869:Miami Showband massacre
832:Miami Showband killings
632:in protest against the
526:Protestant Action Force
356:Ulster Defence Regiment
325:Donaghmore, County Down
293:Ulster Defence Regiment
278:Miami Showband killings
173:, was a Northern Irish
146:Ulster Defence Regiment
80:Donaghmore, County Down
4351:Loughinisland massacre
4305:Charlemont pub attacks
4229:Imperial Hotel bombing
4223:Battle at Springmartin
4211:Battle of St Matthew's
3873:Tommy West (1975–1976)
3821:Ulster Volunteer Force
3769:Ulster Volunteer Force
3704:Taylor, Peter (1999).
3648:Hayes, Declan (2005).
3643:. London: Arrow Books.
3220:The Troubles I've Seen
3126:1 October 2011 at the
2713:. UK: Mainstream. p.25
2548:Taylor, Peter (2001).
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414:UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade
376:Ulster Volunteer Force
303:, that Jackson was an
179:Ulster Volunteer Force
118:Ulster Volunteer Force
4341:1991 Drumbeg killings
4335:1991 Cappagh killings
4299:Hillcrest Bar bombing
4145:Winston Churchill Rea
4038:Mark "Swinger" Fulton
3746:. Eaton Publications.
3742:Tiernan, Joe (2010).
3723:Tiernan, Joe (2000).
3618:Notre Dame Law School
3107:14 April 2012 at the
3089:14 April 2012 at the
2695:Wharton, Ken (2013).
1889:on 23 September 2021.
1824:26 April 2011 at the
1536:Anglo-Irish Agreement
1456:Battalion of the Dead
1401:when the UVF were on
1399:Drumcree disturbances
1321:
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935:psychological warfare
882:
809:
634:Sunningdale Agreement
481:for gallantry in the
297:psychological warfare
201:took over as leader.
4323:Glasgow pub bombings
4217:McGurk's Bar bombing
4043:William James Fulton
3877:John "Bunter" Graham
3772:Mid-Ulster Brigadier
3580:. Dublin: Oireachtas
3543:. Dublin: Oireachtas
3132:Sunday Business Post
3046:14 July 2011 at the
2360:on 28 September 2011
2354:Sunday Business Post
2175:, pp. 141, 161.
2159:19 June 2009 at the
1711:14 July 2011 at the
1381:Weapons used in the
983:Captain Fred Holroyd
506:Special Patrol Group
493:states in his book,
252:Special Patrol Group
4476:Ulster Army Council
4329:Avenue Bar shooting
4311:Chlorane Bar attack
3477:8 July 2011 at the
2898:, pp. 174, 221
2740:, pp. 158–159.
2439:, pp. 85, 119.
2229:, pp. 141–162.
2190:, pp. 145–146.
2098:, pp. 259–260.
1315:Liam Clarke of the
1263:Belfast Crown Court
1259:Crumlin Road Prison
1236:Crumlin Road Prison
1210:It is noted in the
1135:forensic ballistics
610:Dublin car bombings
594:Dublin car bombings
487:Royal Ulster Rifles
384:Pat Finucane Centre
282:Pat Finucane Centre
167:Robert John Jackson
50:Robert John Jackson
4404:The Miami Showband
4392:John Francis Green
4270:Strand Bar bombing
4205:RTÉ Studio bombing
4024:Mid-Ulster Brigade
4014:James "Tonto" Watt
3697:The SAS in Ireland
3360:Cassel et al. 2006
3244:Cassel et al. 2006
3222:, 1 September 1999
3168:Cassel et al. 2006
3144:Cassel et al. 2006
2922:, pp. 142–43.
2872:War Without Honour
2829:. 14 December 2011
2801:Cassel et al. 2006
2789:Cassel et al. 2006
2753:Cassel et al. 2006
2685:, pp. 147–148
2616:, pp. 108–109
2592:, pp. 110–111
2452:Cassel et al. 2006
2393:, pp. 101–102
2319:Sunday Independent
2239:Cassel et al. 2006
2046:, pp. 144–45.
1838:North Belfast News
1706:. 12 December 2003
1670:"Killing Fields".
1332:, "the Jackal" by
1240:
1216:Lord Chief Justice
1169:
1053:Moy, County Tyrone
1012:War Without Honour
977:(The Det). Former
889:
819:
815:Mid-Ulster Brigade
784:in Mullyash, near
782:John Francis Green
725:tertiary explosive
606:Moira, County Down
584:The SAS in Ireland
571:Magistrates' Court
459:RUC Special Branch
455:Intelligence Corps
431:Irish nationalists
393:North Belfast News
368:11th Battalion UDR
305:RUC Special Branch
195:Mid-Ulster Brigade
149:11th Battalion UDR
142:Mid-Ulster Brigade
82:, Northern Ireland
4529:
4528:
4496:Ulster Volunteers
4379:Prominent victims
4317:Ramble Inn attack
4235:Belturbet bombing
4177:Shankill Butchers
4116:Red Hand Commando
4094:Wesley Somerville
3853:Samuel McClelland
3788:
3787:
3779:Succeeded by
3776:1975–early 1990s
3536:(December 2003).
3323:HighBeam Research
3291:Belfast Telegraph
2856:Belfast Telegraph
2563:Belfast Telegraph
2270:Irish Independent
1983:Irish Independent
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1649:. Cain.ulst.ac.uk
1613:Irish Independent
1359:Ulster Resistance
1339:Shankill Butchers
1292:Irish Independent
1194:The Barron Report
1075:O'Dowd and Reavey
1010:In his 1989 book
961:It was stated by
532:such as brothers
522:Red Hand Commando
360:infantry regiment
317:Church of Ireland
273:Irish Independent
183:ethno-nationalist
164:
163:
77:27 September 1948
37:Jackson with the
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1159:The village of
1153:
1071:
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971:The Hidden Hand
963:The Hidden Hand
959:
877:
871:
851:The Trigger Men
804:
798:
778:
746:Hackballs Cross
691:The Hidden Hand
602:
596:
564:identity parade
558:drove off in a
547:
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426:Provisional IRA
418:Brendan O'Brien
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372:Ulster loyalist
313:
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3994:
3987:
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3980:Brian Robinson
3977:
3972:
3967:
3962:
3957:
3955:Billy Mitchell
3952:
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3439:
3415:
3403:
3390:
3377:
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3352:
3340:
3310:
3295:
3279:
3277:, p. 261.
3264:
3248:
3236:
3224:
3211:
3209:, p. 258.
3196:
3184:
3182:, p. 142.
3172:
3160:
3148:
3136:
3113:
3094:
3069:
3067:, p. 260.
3052:
3039:The Irish News
3029:
3027:, p. 104.
3012:
2993:
2981:
2955:
2953:, p. 135.
2943:
2924:
2912:
2910:, p. 239.
2900:
2888:
2886:, p. 160.
2876:
2860:
2844:
2842:, p. 136.
2832:
2817:
2815:, p. 172.
2805:
2793:
2781:
2769:
2757:
2742:
2727:
2723:McPhilemy 1998
2715:
2702:
2687:
2675:
2660:
2648:
2639:
2630:
2618:
2606:
2594:
2579:
2567:
2554:
2541:
2529:
2517:
2495:
2493:, p. 206.
2480:
2468:
2456:
2441:
2429:
2412:
2395:
2383:
2371:
2337:
2325:
2300:
2288:
2276:
2260:
2243:
2231:
2219:
2204:
2202:, p. 146.
2192:
2177:
2165:
2124:
2109:
2100:
2088:
2086:, p. 259.
2073:
2061:
2048:
2036:
2024:
2012:
1999:
1987:
1970:
1959:
1937:
1925:
1908:
1892:
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1480:
1475:
1470:
1463:
1460:
1451:Martin O'Hagan
1434:
1431:
1390:
1387:
1370:Henry McDonald
1278:
1275:
1227:
1224:
1152:
1149:
1070:
1067:
1047:
1044:
1042:
1041:Other killings
1039:
958:
955:
873:Main article:
870:
867:
824:British Legion
800:Main article:
797:
794:
777:
774:
716:Parnell Street
687:Dublin Airport
598:Main article:
595:
592:
551:trade unionist
546:
543:
541:
538:
514:James Mitchell
479:Military Medal
409:
406:
312:
309:
254:(SPG) officer
233:An article by
222:magazine) and
162:
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152:
151:
139:
135:
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124:
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111:
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94:(aged 49)
88:
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68:
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56:
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48:
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28:
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4456:Loyalist feud
4454:
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4172:Glenanne gang
4170:
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4156:Michael Stone
4154:
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4138:John McKeague
4135:
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4126:
4125:Frankie Curry
4123:
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4065:
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4056:Robin Jackson
4053:
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4009:
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3998:
3997:William Smith
3995:
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3988:
3986:
3983:
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3976:
3973:
3971:
3968:
3966:
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3960:William Moore
3958:
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3945:Jackie Mahood
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3906:Frankie Curry
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3808:
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3792:
3783:
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3773:
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3763:
3757:
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3734:1-85635-320-6
3730:
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3717:
3715:0-7475-4519-7
3711:
3707:
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3698:
3693:
3689:
3684:
3680:
3678:9781840182279
3674:
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3646:
3642:
3641:The Dirty War
3637:
3623:
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3612:
3611:
3605:
3601:
3595:
3576:
3573:(July 2006).
3572:
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3564:
3558:
3539:
3535:
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3530:
3526:
3525:
3518:
3511:
3508:
3505:, p. 617
3504:
3499:
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3484:
3480:
3476:
3473:
3468:
3465:
3461:
3456:
3453:
3449:
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3435:
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3422:
3420:
3416:
3413:, p. 618
3412:
3407:
3404:
3400:
3394:
3391:
3387:
3386:Press Gazette
3381:
3378:
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3328:
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3257:
3252:
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3237:
3233:
3228:
3225:
3221:
3215:
3212:
3208:
3203:
3201:
3197:
3194:, p. 716
3193:
3188:
3185:
3181:
3176:
3173:
3170:, p. 115
3169:
3164:
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3140:
3137:
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2833:
2830:
2828:
2821:
2818:
2814:
2809:
2806:
2802:
2797:
2794:
2791:, p. 112
2790:
2785:
2782:
2779:, p. 619
2778:
2773:
2770:
2767:, p. 140
2766:
2761:
2758:
2755:, p. 110
2754:
2749:
2747:
2743:
2739:
2734:
2732:
2728:
2725:, p. 316
2724:
2719:
2716:
2712:
2706:
2703:
2698:
2691:
2688:
2684:
2679:
2676:
2673:, p. 555
2672:
2667:
2665:
2661:
2658:, p. 219
2657:
2652:
2649:
2643:
2640:
2637:Larkin, p.182
2634:
2631:
2628:, p. 61.
2627:
2622:
2619:
2615:
2610:
2607:
2604:, p. 199
2603:
2598:
2595:
2591:
2586:
2584:
2580:
2576:
2571:
2568:
2564:
2558:
2555:
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2545:
2542:
2538:
2533:
2530:
2526:
2521:
2518:
2514:
2508:
2506:
2504:
2502:
2500:
2496:
2492:
2487:
2485:
2481:
2478:, p. 137
2477:
2472:
2469:
2466:, p. 126
2465:
2460:
2457:
2454:, p. 114
2453:
2448:
2446:
2442:
2438:
2433:
2430:
2426:
2424:
2416:
2413:
2409:
2407:
2399:
2396:
2392:
2387:
2384:
2381:, p. 100
2380:
2375:
2372:
2359:
2355:
2351:
2344:
2342:
2338:
2334:
2329:
2326:
2322:
2320:
2313:
2311:
2309:
2307:
2305:
2301:
2297:
2292:
2289:
2285:
2280:
2277:
2273:
2271:
2264:
2261:
2257:
2255:
2247:
2244:
2240:
2235:
2232:
2228:
2223:
2220:
2217:, p. 125
2216:
2211:
2209:
2205:
2201:
2196:
2193:
2189:
2184:
2182:
2178:
2174:
2169:
2166:
2162:
2158:
2154:
2153:
2148:
2143:
2141:
2139:
2137:
2135:
2133:
2131:
2129:
2125:
2121:
2120:
2113:
2110:
2104:
2101:
2097:
2092:
2089:
2085:
2080:
2078:
2074:
2071:, p. 99.
2070:
2065:
2062:
2058:
2052:
2049:
2045:
2040:
2037:
2031:
2029:
2025:
2022:, p. 218
2021:
2016:
2013:
2009:
2003:
2000:
1997:, p. 554
1996:
1991:
1988:
1984:
1980:
1977:Joe Tiernan.
1974:
1971:
1968:
1963:
1960:
1947:
1941:
1938:
1935:, p. 124
1934:
1929:
1926:
1922:
1918:
1912:
1909:
1905:
1899:
1897:
1893:
1888:
1884:
1878:
1876:
1874:
1872:
1870:
1868:
1866:
1862:
1859:, p. 398
1858:
1853:
1851:
1849:
1847:
1843:
1839:
1833:
1830:
1827:
1823:
1820:
1815:
1813:
1811:
1809:
1805:
1801:
1796:
1793:
1787:
1785:
1783:
1779:
1776:, p. 718
1775:
1770:
1767:
1762:
1755:
1753:
1751:
1749:
1747:
1745:
1743:
1741:
1739:
1735:
1731:
1726:
1724:
1722:
1718:
1714:
1710:
1707:
1705:
1698:
1696:
1692:
1689:, p. 724
1688:
1683:
1681:
1677:
1673:
1672:New Statesman
1667:
1665:
1661:
1648:
1642:
1640:
1636:
1633:, p. 133
1632:
1627:
1625:
1623:
1619:
1616:
1614:
1607:
1605:
1603:
1601:
1599:
1597:
1595:
1593:
1591:
1589:
1585:
1582:, p. 85.
1581:
1576:
1573:
1570:, p. 152
1569:
1564:
1562:
1560:
1556:
1550:
1549:
1545:
1537:
1531:
1528:
1522:
1519:
1513:
1510:
1503:
1499:
1496:
1494:
1491:
1489:
1486:
1484:
1483:Robert Nairac
1481:
1479:
1476:
1474:
1471:
1469:
1468:Glenanne gang
1466:
1465:
1461:
1459:
1457:
1452:
1447:
1443:
1440:
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1428:
1423:
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1379:
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1371:
1367:
1362:
1360:
1356:
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1325:
1320:
1318:
1313:
1308:
1303:
1300:
1296:
1294:
1293:
1288:
1284:
1283:New Statesman
1276:
1274:
1272:
1266:
1264:
1260:
1256:
1251:
1249:
1248:Dessie O'Hare
1245:
1237:
1232:
1225:
1223:
1220:
1217:
1213:
1212:Barron Report
1207:
1204:
1198:
1195:
1189:
1187:
1183:
1178:
1177:County Antrim
1174:
1166:
1165:County Antrim
1162:
1157:
1150:
1148:
1144:
1141:
1136:
1131:
1128:
1127:Diplock Court
1122:
1120:
1115:
1113:
1108:
1103:
1101:
1100:Shankill Road
1097:
1093:
1089:
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1066:
1063:
1058:
1054:
1045:
1040:
1038:
1034:
1032:
1027:
1024:
1023:Barron Report
1019:
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3865:Ken Gibson
3667:Lost Lives
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