Tag: Irish Government

#OTD in 1994 – Death of Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who was shot dead while attempting to prevent a bombing by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) at the Widow Scallans pub in Dublin.

21/05/2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Martin Doherty was born on 11 July 1958 in the Finglas area of Dublin, into a family of five brothers and six sisters. He played soccer for a club in Dunsink, in addition to Gaelic football. He joined the IRA’s Dublin Brigade following the death of ten Irish republican hunger strikers in the 1981 Irish […]

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#OTD in 1994 – Death of Martin “Doco” Doherty, a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who was shot dead while attempting to prevent a bombing by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) at the Widow Scallans pub in Dublin.

21/05/2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

Martin Doherty was born on 11 July 1958 in the Finglas area of Dublin, into a family of five brothers and six sisters. He played soccer for a club in Dunsink, in addition to Gaelic football. He joined the IRA’s Dublin Brigade following the death of ten Irish republican hunger strikers in the 1981 Irish […]

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1994 – Death of Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who was shot dead while attempting to prevent a bombing by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) at the Widow Scallans pub in Dublin.

21/05/2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Martin Doherty was born on 11 July 1958 in the Finglas area of Dublin, into a family of five brothers and six sisters. He played soccer for a club in Dunsink, in addition to Gaelic football. He joined the IRA’s Dublin Brigade following the death of ten Irish republican hunger strikers in the 1981 Irish […]

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