Martin McGartland's Net Worth: $1-5 Million. [7] The IRA vetted him for several weeks before accepting his application in late 1980. [6], OCallaghan later recalled, In truth there seemed to be no escaping from Ireland. The RUC intercepted the two couriers delivering the guns to be used to shoot the soldiers and McGartland was exposed as an infiltrator.[22]. McGartland later attended St. Thomas Secondary School. Martin was shot 6 times by the IRA in June 1999. [5], Donaldsons daughter Jane is married to Ciaran Kearney, who was arrested along with Donaldson in the Stormontgate affair. In 1969, violent attacks were perpetrated against civil rights organizers and many other Catholics by unionists. He has published a book detailing his experiences as a spy, Fifty Dead Men Walking. Martin McGartland, whose exploits as a spy within the IRA were made into a feature film, blames "years of neglect" by MI5 for leaving him traumatised and unable to work because of his secret life . Donaldson has been accused, by an unnamed republican source, of being part of the IRA team that carried out the La Mon restaurant bombing in 1978, one of the most notorious bomb attacks of the Troubles.[2]. Marty was also advised to changed his daily routine and substantially increase his home security. On June 17, 1999, Marty was shot six times at close range by a masked man as he sat in his car in the rear lane. Two men were arrested yesterday in connection with the attempted murder of the former IRA informer, Mr Martin McGartland (29), who was shot six times in . [25], He moved to England and received nearly 100,000 to buy a house and establish a new life in Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear, going by the name Martin Ashe. [citation needed], At the same time, the IRA employed him as a security officer in a protection racket; his job was to guard a building site in Ballymurphy which was under the protection of the IRA. Martin is accepted by many to be one of MI5's best spies in Northern Ireland during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Martin's second Book, Dead Man Running, is also . He said he was, entirely unworthy of belief a selfish and self-regarding man, to whose lips a lie comes more naturally than the truth.[14]. The Provisional IRA issued a one-line statement saying that it had no involvement whatsoever with the murder. Sinn Fin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley . Following his release from jail, OCallaghan published his memoirs, The Informer: The True Life Story of One Mans War on Terrorism. [43] In August 2006 Ian Paisley told Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, We have also heard how the sister of IRA informer Martin McGartland was told by police that her safety was under threat. 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In April 2011, two arrests were made in County Donegal by the Garda Special Detective Unit in connection with the murder a 69-year-old man and a 31-year-old man. Fultons real name is purportedly Peter Keeley, a Catholic from Newry, who joined the Royal Irish Rangers at the age of 18. Henry McDonald. [4] Fulton claims he tipped off his MI5 handler that an attack was likely. McGartland - whose first best-selling book, Fifty Dead Men Walking, tells the remarkable true story of how he infiltrated the IRA and saved more than 50 people from certain death. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. [29] In June 1997, the BBC broadcast a television documentary on his story. These psychos were obviously baying for blood Mod blood, to be exact. His sister Catherine was one of many children who joined the youth movement of the IRA. Believing that he would be helping to combat British imperialism, OCallaghan volunteered for the newly founded Provisional IRA at the age of 16. [10] It is unclear whether this audio is a recording made via the Cook Report investigation. He was then kidnapped by the IRA and only escaped being killed by jumping from a third-floor window. The school closed in 2011. [2] He was also given a beating by British soldiers at age 13 for petty crime and they attempted to recruit him as an informer. His identity became publicly known after a minor court case. After his cover was blown in 1991 he was kidnapped and only escaped being killed by jumping from a third-floor window. "[29], In 2003 Scott Monaghan, a suspect in the shooting, sued Northumbria police. The police document is a major crime unit investigation review by the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire forces. Martin 'Marty' McGartland was a British Agent inside the IRA . In the late 1980s, he travelled to Lebanon again and held talks with both Lebanese Shia militias, Hezbollah and Amal, in an effort to secure the freedom of the Irish hostage Brian Keenan. If that were to happen there would be no place for IRA/Sinn Fin to hide. On the wider implications of the reports findings, McGartland added: The Northumbria police knew the IRA had been behind my shooting, that they acted in consort with MI5, the Home Office and the then Blair Labour government (and subsequent governments) covered it up to protect not only the IRA as an organisation but the individual IRA members who tried to murder me. He described his father as an armchair supporter of the IRA, while his mother was reportedly fiercely opposed to their actions. McGartland's first job was working a paper round, and later delivering milk. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. [5], After the original allegations broke in 2003, Scappaticci, by now living in the Riverdale area of West Belfast, claimed his involvement with the IRA ended in 1990 due to his wifes illness. This move by May was described by some lawyers and Human Rights groups as Kafkaesque. This enabled him to better identify suspects who had been targeted by RUC Special Branch. . Martin McGartland described Wilson as the IRA's head of intelligence and civil administration in the city until his imprisonment in 1991. . He grew up on the Ballymurphy estate. [36] A week later, it was mentioned in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee as evidence that IRA arms decommissioning had not taken place,[37] and in January 2000 by Robert McCartney in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Crown authorities advised in the same letter that he take up the offer of a new identity. [12] McGartland has said that his relatives have received harassment from Republicans;[12] in 1996, his brother Joe was subjected to a severe and prolonged IRA punishment beating with baseball bats, iron bars and a wooden plank embedded with nails. 12 year old Cathy McGartland - IRA Child Soldier War Crime. In December 2005, the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland dropped the espionage charges against Donaldson and two other men on the grounds that it would not be in the public interest to proceed with the case. They attached him to an active service unit in the Brandywell area of Derry. Martin 'Marty' McGartland (AKA Agent Carol) was born in Belfast on 30th January 1970. He was held in secret in an unknown location for almost a year. To order a copy (P&P free . When he asked Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams when he would be able to, he was informed that it was a matter between him and the IRA. The Northumbria police at this stage however has declined to confirm or deny that the van believed to have been used by the gang that shot McGartland has since been destroyed. Gilmour was sent on remand to Crumlin Road Prison. OCallaghans father, who had served in the IRA, had been interned during World War II at the Curragh Camp in County Kildare.[1]. [4], He stated that he was recruited after compromising himself during a vulnerable time in his life, but did not specify why he was vulnerable or why he would risk his life as a mole for British intelligence in an area such as West Belfast. [29] In June 1997, the BBC broadcast a television documentary on his story. Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. His identity became known after a minor court case; he was shot by the IRA, but recovered from the injuries. Browse Martin McGartland's best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. [9] He then worked for a local taxi firm as an unlicensed driver, paying a percentage to the IRA. [20], A taxi driver and republican sympathizer, Noel Thompson, who picked Harrison up at Belfast airport and informed the IRA was later jailed for 12 years for conspiracy to murder. Mon 2 Sep 2019 12.08 EDT Last modified on Wed 18 Dec 2019 10. . She was later killed after accidentally falling through a skylight at her school. Prijavite se korisnikim raunom. Martin McGartland, Writer: Fifty Dead Men Walking. Denis Martin Donaldson (Short Strand, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1950 4 April 2006 in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a member of Sinn Fin who was murdered following his exposure in December 2005 as an informer in the employ of MI5 and the Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary). OCallaghan was released as part of a Prerogative of Mercy by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. In 2003, Scappaticci was alleged to have volunteered as an informer in 1978 after being assaulted in an argument with a fellow IRA member. Northumbria Police and the CPS led the IRA to Martin's 'safe house' and he was shot 6 times. [3], On 5 November 2006, he was released without charge after being arrested in London, and transferred to Belfast to be questioned about his knowledge or involvement in the deaths of Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation member Eoin Morley (aged 23), Royal Ulster Constabulary officer Colleen McMurray (34), and Ranger Cyril Smith (aged 21). When he was exposed as an agent in 1991 he was abducted by the IRA, but escaped and was resettled in OCallaghan escaped to Ireland despite being hunted by British police and in 1985 he was elected as a Sinn Fin councillor for Tralee Urban District Council, and unsuccessfully contested a seat on Kerry County Council. [22] Diaries of the late Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix, head of the Northern Ireland Police Counter-Surveillance Unit, revealed that he and the other Special Branch officers had advised senior RUC officers against stopping the gun couriers vehicles as doing so would put McGartlands life at risk as well as allow the actual IRA gunmen to escape. PAYBACK? [10], According to McGartland's autobiography, he later infiltrated the IRA in autumn 1989, having been asked to join by Davy Adams, a leading IRA member and a nephew of Sinn Fin leader Gerry Adams. Izgubili ste lozinku? [36] A week later, it was mentioned in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee as evidence that IRA arms decommissioning had not taken place,[37] and in January 2000 by Robert McCartney in the Northern Ireland Assembly. This move by May was described by some lawyers and Human Rights' groups as "Kafkaesque". [5][6], On 26 November 2013, it was reported that The Irish News had won a legal battle after a judge ruled against Keeleys lawsuit against the newspaper for breach of privacy and copyright, by publishing his photograph, which thereby also, he argued, endangered his life. [13] On December 18, 1984, the presiding judge, Lord Lowry, ruled that Gilmour was not a credible witness. He earned the money being a professional Writer. The shipment had been purchased from the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish-American crime family based in South Boston, Massachusetts. "I made lots of good friends in Whitley Bay. Marty believes he became the IRA's top target because of he revealed everything he knew about the organisation in his 1997 autobiography, Fifty Dead Men Walking. He is a clever man, this Agent Carol, Martin Ashe, Martin McGartland, or whatever his name is now, he won't tell. [5], McGartland described his childhood in West Belfast as one in which he would join with older boys in stone-throwing to goad the British Army. [1] According to his former friend, Jim Gibney, writing in the Irish News, he was a local hero in Short Strand in 1970 because he took part in the gun battle between Ulster loyalists and Irish nationalists at St. Matthews Chapel (see Battle of Saint Matthews). Their methods were not met with approval by all residents. McGartland told the Guardian that this finding in particular proved that from the outset officers in Northumbria police knew that the IRA was behind the shooting. [31], In 1999, he was shot six times at his home by two men receiving serious wounds in the chest, stomach, side, upper leg and hand. He was later shot six times by a gunman, but recovered from the injuries. [14] He convinced his IRA associates that he was a committed member of the organisation and he successfully led a double life, which was kept secret even from the mother of his two sons. His allegations indicate that, to the handlers of the FRU, it was more important to keep Stakeknife in place rather than save the life of Hegarty.[9]. Colleen McMurray, a constable (aged 34) died and another constable was seriously injured. By not being present with his lawyers at the closed court, he would not be privy to anything pertaining to his case that the court submitted. Flanagan, a Catholic, was regarded as a traitor by both the IRA and many local residents. If these were to be used in McGartlands lawsuit against the government for negligence and breach of contract, they would ensure that the public, media, as well as McGartland and his lawyers, would be denied access to the hearings. Things deteriorated for Scappaticci when Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan police commissioner who has been probing RUC and British Army collusion with loyalist paramilitaries in the killing of Protestant student, Brian Adam Lambert in 1987 and the killing of solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989, revealed that he knew of his existence. The assault left him confined to a wheelchair for three months. glach [IRA Volunteer] Sean O'Riordan (13) On 19.02.72, fourteen-year-old David McAuley . Instead his case would be heard by a "Special Advocate". [12] He was cleared of perverting the course of justice. [6], On 19 March 2006, Hugh Jordan, a journalist for the Sunday World tracked him down to an isolated pre-Famine cottage near Glenties, County Donegal. A report in a February 2007 edition of the Belfast News Letter reported that a cassette recording allegedly of Scappaticci talking about the number of murders he was involved in via the Nutting Squad, as well as his work as an Army agent, had been lodged with the PSNI in 2004 and subsequently passed to the Stevens Inquiry in 2005. The assault left him confined to a wheelchair for three months. Wed 21 Dec 2011 at 09:00. [7] Ingram paints Scappaticci at this time as the crown jewels, (the best) agent handled by the FRU. They are never ever going to stop targeting people like me. After learning of MacIntyres deal from FBI agent John Connolly, Bulger murdered him and buried him in a South Boston basement. This was after being recommended by a childhood friend, Harry Fitzsimmons, part of an IRA bomb team, whom McGartland often drove around Belfast. The theatre had been searched before the concert and a second search following the warning revealed no device.[17]. I am also calling on him to swiftly agree to an external police force to carry out my unsolved attempted murder investigation. Martin McGartland on tyne tees news after the 1997 malicious prosecution that exposted him to danger. His paternal grandfather had taken the Anti-Treaty side during the Irish Civil War. His identity became publicly known after a minor court case. He has written two books; Fifty Dead Men Walking and Dead Man Running. Martin McGartland - Fifty Dead Men Walking - The Motion Picture & Television Technical Database . [13], A few weeks later, OCallaghan made contact with Kerry IRA leader Martin Ferris and attended his first IRA meeting since 1975. [30], Journalist Kevin Myers praised McGartlands heroism and the Sunday Express newspaper described him as a real-life James Bond. They were some of the nicest blokes I had ever met.". In 1984, OCallaghan informed his Garda handler of an attempt to smuggle seven tons of AK-47 assault rifles from the United States. Nummer 6 - 2017; Nummer 5 - 2017; Nummer 4 - 2017; Nummer 3 - 2017; Nummer 2 - 2017 He was offered 200 a week with bonuses for arrests and weapons finds. Martin 'Marty' McGartland 'Banned from his own film' - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Martin McGartland is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) informer who joined the organisation in order to pass information to British security forces. McGartland pointed out that the case had nothing to do with national security or his undercover work 24 years earlier.
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