Shooting of taxi driver in west Belfast linked to internal feud among Óglaigh na hÉireann members
Shooting of taxi driver in west Belfast linked to internal feud among Óglaigh na hÉireann membersRepublican Network for Unity, a small political party with links to the dissident organisation Óglaigh na hÉireann , posted that the victim is one of its members – and blamed the attempted murder attack on a group of people with links to criminality.
What the PSNI did say was that the 49-year-old victim was “lucky to be alive” after being fired at by two masked men through his car window. He was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital where his condition is stable. In 2018, the group gunned down Jim “JD” Donegan as he sat in his red Porsche Panamera waiting to pick up his teenage son outside his school on the Glen Road in Belfast.
Two gunmen took just 21 seconds to single the 42-year-old out of a crowd of more than 100 people before fleeing on foot. Colm Murphy, who was found liable in a civil trial for the 1998 Omagh bomb atrocity, was among its members. He died two years ago.In 2010, the group planted the under-car bomb that seriously injured PSNI officer Peadar Heffron. In the same year it was blamed for a car-bomb attack on the British army’s Palace Barracks in Hollywood, Co Down, which houses MI5’s headquarters in Northern Ireland.
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