List of major crimes in Ireland
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Major crimes in Ireland
- for a list of IRA-related incidents please see: Chronology of Provisional IRA actions
| Date | Name | Deaths | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Murder of Catherine Cooper | 1 | Limerick, Ireland | Catherine Cooper, a 65-year old nurse, is murdered by Michael Manning while working at Barrington's Hospital. Manning is later tried and convicted of her murder becoming the last person to be publicly hanged in the Republic of Ireland. |
| 1983 | O'Connor's jewelry heist | - | Harolds Cross, Dublin, Ireland | Martin Cahill, a burglar and organized crime figure, leads a robbery against O'Connor's Jewelers successfully stealing $3,000,000 in jewelry. |
| 1986 | The Russborough House art robbery | - | County Wicklow, Ireland | Martin Cahill and his gang steal 18 paintings valued at $30,000,000 from the Russborough House in May 1986. |
| 1996 | Murder of Veronica Guerin | 1 | Veronica Guerin, a journalist investigating Irish drug traffickers, is shot five times and killed by two gunmen on a motorcycle while stopped at an instersecton outside Dublin. A massive investigation later resulted in the arrest of over 150 suspects before the eventual extadition of drug trafficker Brian Meehan who was later convicted and sentencd to life inprisonment. |
[edit] Further reading
- Kerrigan, Gene. Hard Cases: True Stories of Irish Crime. Gill & Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 9780717138623
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