Martin Cahill (1949 - 1994)

Born 23 May 1949 in Dublin, Ireland

Died 18 Aug 1994 at age 45 in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Martin Cahill born in 1949, the second of twelve surviving children of Patrick Cahill, a lighthouse-keeper, and Agnes Sheehan. ^[1]

Cahill and his gang carried out one of the biggest art heists since the Second World War with the theft of paintings from the Beit collection in Russborough House in Co Wicklow.

Cahill had also stolen sensitive files from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Dublin, files which gave the criminal underworld an insight into the workings of the gardai and the prosecutorial system. ^[2]

"brothers, John, Eddie and Michael were unable to gain release from Portlaoise and Mountjoy prisons ... wife Frances, sons Martin Jr, Christopher and Luke, daughters Frances and Emma, ... his wife's sister Tina Lawless, with her week-old baby... nephew, Patrick Cahill on temporary release from Shelton Abbey open detention centre ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cahill
2. ↑ https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/a-woman-in-the-way-of-a-drug-barons-ambitions-26420738.html
3. ↑ "Seek no revenge" priest's plea at funeral" by Stephen O'Brien Irish Independent - Tuesday 23 August 1994

• "The General" by Paul Williams
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