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Date Posted: Tue, Feb 08 2011, 8:19:57 PST
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: Dominic McGlinchey: Fallen Comrade of the IRSM

Fallen Comrade of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

Dominic McGlinchey
Former Chief of Staff - Irish National Liberation Army
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, and 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 Irish
Republican Army 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 wed 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 INLA 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 joined
the PIRA, but he clashed with the leadership and was dismissed in
1982.

Upon his release from prison later in 1982, he joined the INLA as
operations officer for South Derry. Within six months, he was
promoted to chief of staff. He made an immediate impact in that
position, putting an end to dissension within the organisation and
building it up throughout the country.

Actions carried out during the period of his leadership included the
bombing of the Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork, which was
being used by NATO in violation of Irish neutrality; the bombing of the
Droppin' Well Bar, which catered to British soldiers; and numerous
other attacks on British military personnel, RUC personnel, and
members of pro-British death squads.

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. He resigned from the INLA during this
period.

After his final release from prison in March of 1993, he began
investigating claims that a pro-British death squad, the Ulster
Volunteer Force, was involved in money laundering with Irish
criminals, and he also began working with activist and Irish
Republican Socialist Party co-founder 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."

http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/dmcglinchey.html

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