#OTD in 1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape | The IRA use a hijacked helicopter to free three of their members from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

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Early that day, an IRA member had hijacked an Alouette II helicopter and forced the pilot to land at the D Wing of Mountjoy Prison where they picked up the three IRA prisoners: Séamus Twomey, Chief of Staff, JB O’Hagan, Quartermaster, and Kevin Mallon, activist. Irish prison guards were not armed. The helicopter had been […]

#OTD in 1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape | The IRA use a hijacked helicopter to free three of their members from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

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#OTD in 1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape: The IRA use a hijacked helicopter to free three of their members from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

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#OTD in 1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape: The IRA use a hijacked helicopter to free three of their members from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

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#OTD in 1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape: The IRA use a hijacked helicopter to free three of their members from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

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1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin after a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard.

31/10/2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers (Séamus Twomey, Chief of Staff, JB O’Hagan, Quartermaster, and Kevin Mallon, activist) escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, aboard a hijacked Alouette II helicopter. Irish prison guards were not armed. It was a brilliantly audacious escapade by the IRA and generated intense embarrassment for the government but incredible PR […]

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#OTD in 1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape | The IRA use a hijacked helicopter to free three of their members from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

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1973 – Mountjoy Prison Helicopter Escape: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin after a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard.

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