Near the junction of Oxford Road and Charleston Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 on August 18, 1994
This day 26 years ago – 18 August 1994 – Martin Cahill was shot dead in Dublin.
The criminal, known as ‘The General,’ was said to have sold artwork stolen from Russborough House to the Ulster Volunteer Force.
The Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the shooting. pic.twitter.com/F9Vx74ePWL
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) August 18, 2020
UVF?
Provies?
Provies and rozzers?
One of his ‘own’?
Reggie and Ronnie?
We may never know.
Name that jammer, anyone?
Pics by Oisín Kane
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Renault 5?
A guy I know bought it afterwards, bullet holes and all.
(the car, not him)
Good grief.
Yeah, Renault 5.
Remember noticing that at the time for no particular reason.
Could be an old model Ford Fiesta.
Anyway, no loss.
…the car or the occupant?
…and yes, it is a Renault 5.
Both, now that I know what the car is. I have a personal dislike of Renaults.
I thought Fiat Punto or Renault 5, google gave me the answer……
Did Brendan Gleeson play him in the film, he’s the absolute spit of Cahill…..
He did
Jon Voight was superb in that I thought
Kevin Spacey as well, not great though.
Ordinary Decent Sex Pest
The General nuisance.
Voight has an interesting brother; Chip Taylor…you can see the family resemblence.
https://youtu.be/0xK5YHU2-jY
Never heard of him before. But I’m liking what I’m hearing so far. Must check out more of his stuff. Cheers for the heads up.
any idea why the UVF wanted the paintings. for money laundering, or was it the principal of getting paintings that they believed belong to Britain back?
I live near Russborough and cant say that robbery affected me in any way, ive no intention of doing a tour of the house. so even if the paintings were still there, who cares.
was wondering that – presumably to sell on, but, if so, why wouldn’t they steal their own like proper criminals?
They certainly not interested in art, unless it only used red white and blue in the colour mix, the climax of which can usually be seen in the kerbstones.
Martin Cahill’s brother, Eddie, is an artist. Full circle.
Parents had a Renault 5 for a while, cardboard on wheels, great little jammer though.
Where’s Matt when you need him?
I was just coming out of the supermarket in Rathines when there was a cacophony of sirens and many squad cars rushing towards Ranelagh. There must have been at least twenty cars passed me as I walked home.
I was just coming out of the snooker club around the corner from the supermarket in Rathmines and bumped into a bloke with a bag of messages when there was a cacophony of sirens etc etc. Not joking.
…….and The End.
Someone was refusing to wear a muzzle so.
Ren-alt, like we used to say it.
…also the other gallic motor; Pew-jet.
Why ‘jammer’? I’ve never heard that before. Wheels. That’s the word.
Jam Jar: Car
Ergo Jammer
Ah!! Cockney rhyming slang. Gotcher.
Nobody knows who dunnit and the gardai don’t particularly care about their failure to solve this cold case. Cahill was a sadistic brute. He ordered a vicious assault on a civil servant who had provided material evidence in a prosecution case. The civil servant bore his injuries permanently and wasn’t able to work. The film called The General portrayed a romantic image of Cahill and made the gardai look silly. I don’t recommend that movie as an authentic portrayal of a nasty havoc wreaker.