370 likes. When his cover was blown, he only escaped an IRA execution by jumping from a third floor window. Henry McDonald. His parents were separated and he had one brother, Joe, and two sisters, Elizabeth and Catherine. However, these claims have been disputed by Sinn Fin. [6], On 19 March 2006, Hugh Jordan, a journalist for the Sunday World tracked him down to an isolated pre-Famine cottage near Glenties, County Donegal. "I'm so used to it now," he said. On the wider implications of the reports findings, McGartland added: The Northumbria police knew the IRA had been behind my shooting, that they acted in consort with MI5, the Home Office and the then Blair Labour government (and subsequent governments) covered it up to protect not only the IRA as an organisation but the individual IRA members who tried to murder me. He had attempted to wrestle the gun away from his assailant, but was shot in the left hand, the blast almost destroying his thumb. OCallaghan appeared as a Crown Prosecution witness in August 2006 during the trial of Yousef Samhan, 26, of Northolt, London, after an incident in which OCallaghan was bound to a chair by two young men whom he met in a gay bar in West London. [32][33] He was relocated immediately, protected by 12 armed officers and given a specially armoured car. The producers of Fifty Dead Men Walking have settled with Martin McGartland, whose autobiography provided the basis for the film. [24] McGartland escaped being killed by jumping from a third floor window in the Twinbrook flat where he had been taken for interrogation following his abduction. A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: "This case remains open and we continue to investigate all possible lines of enquiry to bring any offenders to justice. If that were to happen there would be no place for IRA/Sinn Fin to hide. And while MI5 admitted in a letter that there was a continued threat to McGartlands life, they commented it is not such that he needs immediate police protection or to abandon immediately his residence. This was my first taste of a normal life and a normal social life. This interview was, unknown to Scappaticci, recorded and eventually found its way into an edition of the programme. However, he was awarded 100 for a delay in returning items of property. [23] The penalty for informing on the IRA was death, often preceded by lengthy and often brutal interrogations. "At one time I had eight different firearms officers looking after me. Flanagan was also rumoured, falsely, to have used excessive force while interrogating IRA suspects. He confessed to the murders of Private Eva Martin and D.I. [11], He enjoys occasional games of backgammon and eating tiramisu, Come back soon for a feature on loyalist Supergrasses. Martin McGartland alleges that the organisation made a series of security gaffes that left him open to assassination. [5], After the original allegations broke in 2003, Scappaticci, by now living in the Riverdale area of West Belfast, claimed his involvement with the IRA ended in 1990 due to his wifes illness. [9] On 8 April 2006 Donaldson was buried in Belfast City Cemetery, rather than at Milltown Cemetery, the more common burial place for republicans. And Marty believes he will always be a target because his book caused the IRA so much damage. [12] McGartland has said that his relatives have received harassment from Republicans;[12] in 1996, his brother Joe was subjected to a severe and prolonged IRA punishment beating with baseball bats, iron bars and a wooden plank embedded with nails. Martin McGartland, Writer: Fifty Dead Men Walking. IRA members involved in the kidnapping of wealthy Irish supermarket magnate. "We would still urge anyone with any information about this incident to contact Northumbria Police. [13] He was also recruited by an IRA Active Service Unit (ASU) which was headed by a man known as "Spud". "It was my first real taste of having a life with people who weren't trying to kill me or trying to kill other people. Since then, Gilmour has been in hiding outside Northern Ireland. I am the victim of an attack and I got around 50,000 in compensation, which is not a big amount considering my injuries. The ISU has also been referred to as the Nutting Squad. [27], Three years after moving to England, the IRA sent his mother a Catholic mass card with McGartlands name written on it. [38], In 1997 McGartland published a book about his life, Fifty Dead Men Walking. [31], In 1999, he was shot six times at his Whitley Bay home by two men, receiving serious wounds in the chest, stomach, side, upper leg and hand. [45], There are letters extant which demonstrate that Crown authorities through their solicitors Burton & Burton wrote to the BBC and confirmed that McGartland had worked for them under the code name Agent Carol. [45], The film Fifty Dead Men Walking (the number of lives he believed he saved) inspired by his book went on general release in April 2009;[46] the film was directed by Kari Skogland and starred Jim Sturgess as McGartland and Sir Ben Kingsley as Fergus, his British handler. As a result, the cargo was intercepted by a combined force of the Irish Navy and the Garda Sochna. Martin McGartland (born 30 January 1970) is a former British informer who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch.. He cites a number of allegations against Scappaticci. He made friends around Whitley Bay and began dating the woman who remains his partner. Eight years earlier the Belfast-born agent became the only person ever to escape from the IRAs notorious internal mole hunting unit, the so-called Headhunters or Nutting Squad. Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the "martinmcgartland" Flickr tag. We must work tirelessly to bring that day forward.[25], Many Irish republicans have strongly denied the allegations made by OCallaghan in his book The Informer and subsequent newspaper articles. Ingram also alleges that Scappaticci disclosed information to British intelligence on IRA operations during the time period, involving: Aside from providing intelligence to the FRU, Scappaticci is alleged to have worked closely with his FRU handlers throughout the 1980s and 1990s to protect and promote his position within the IRA. McGartland was shot several times Thursday morning in the garage at the . He took up work as a bricklayer. McGartland later attended St. Thomas Secondary School. "Over 40 members of the organisation were shot dead . Tipperary Tim astounding 1928 Grand National winner at 100/1 & a proud resident of Glencairn ! He commented, "Refusing to confirm or deny my role is simply a trick to avoid the State's responsibilities toward someone who has risked his life for it. Individuals who have given valuable service to the country and who may be at threat as a result deserve and receive considerable support at public expense to ensure their safety. He was offered 200 a week with bonuses for arrests and weapons finds. Samhan was nevertheless found guilty of robbery on 6 September 2006.[22][23]. . Fifty Dead Men Walking by Martin McGartland (John Blake, 7.99). He states that of the IRA and INLA members he knew, almost half were dead or missing by the end of the conflict. [9] He then worked for a local taxi firm as an unlicensed driver, paying a percentage to the IRA. PAYBACK? [18], Although McGartland prevented the IRA from carrying out many spectaculars, including the planned bombing of two lorries transporting British soldiers from Stranraer to Larne that could have resulted in the loss of over a dozen lives,[19] his reported greatest regret was his failure in June 1991 to save the life of 21-year-old Private Tony Harrison. 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Martin 'Marty' McGartland (AKA Agent Carol) was born in Belfast on 30th January 1970. Marty says looking over his shoulder is now part of his everyday life. At the 1983 general election, Donaldson was the Sinn Fin candidate in Belfast East. Total costs, including the investigation, amounted to 1,500,000. Under British law, Keeley will also be billed for the newspapers legal costs. . [44], McGartland responded by lambasting May, pointing out that "this is one of the daftest things I have ever heard; everyone who is interested knows my past "[n]o current security interest is at stake." In April 2011, two arrests were made in County Donegal by the Garda Special Detective Unit in connection with the murder a 69-year-old man and a 31-year-old man. "If I didn't have her I couldn't have coped. In the late 1980s, he travelled to Lebanon again and held talks with both Lebanese Shia militias, Hezbollah and Amal, in an effort to secure the freedom of the Irish hostage Brian Keenan. Immediately afterwards, he telephoned his Garda contact and said, Were in.[14], According to OCallaghan, Over the next few months plans to carry out various armed robberies were put together by the local IRA. I had been working for the security services in Northern Ireland since I was 16. In April 2014, Gilmours second book What Price Truth was published; in the book Gilmour goes into greater detail about his life within the IRA and INLA. Police activity in Whitley Bay after Martin McGartland was shot (Image: Press Association). May argued that were the government to confirm in one case that a person was an agent then refused to comment in another, that would give rise to the suspicion that the person worked as an agent thereby putting his life in danger, McGartland replied that Mays argument would be reasonable if those particular horses had not bolted long ago, Denis Donaldson Sinn Fein Stormontgate press conference. Denis Martin Donaldson (Short Strand, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1950 4 April 2006 in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a member of Sinn Fin who was murdered following his exposure in December 2005 as an informer in the employ of MI5 and the Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary). It has since been alleged that Scappaticci knew the intimate details of Hegartys killing because, as part of his duties in the ISU, he had reportedly been involved in the interrogation and execution of Hegarty regarding a large Libyan arms cache, which the Garda found. [6] He befriended a homeless man who sheltered in the disused Old Broadway cinema on the Falls Road, and provided the man with food and money. [3], On 5 November 2006, he was released without charge after being arrested in London, and transferred to Belfast to be questioned about his knowledge or involvement in the deaths of Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation member Eoin Morley (aged 23), Royal Ulster Constabulary officer Colleen McMurray (34), and Ranger Cyril Smith (aged 21). His paternal grandfather had taken the Anti-Treaty side during the Irish Civil War. The . Martin McGartland Wiki & Bio Two men were arrested yesterday in connection with the attempted murder of the former IRA informer, Mr Martin McGartland (29), who was shot six times in . OCallaghan stated that he had risen to leader of Southern Command and a substitute delegate on the IRA Army Council both in print and before a Dublin jury under oath. Henry McDonald Guardian 16 Feb 2012. In their review, the three constabularies led by Jon Boutcher, the ex-Bedfordshire chief constable and head of another multimillion investigation into another army spy in the IRA Stake Knife concluded that republican paramilitaries did try to kill McGartland. The controversy that has arisen centres on the allegation by Ingram that Scappaticcis role as an informer was protected by the FRU through the deaths of those who might have been in a position to expose him as a British agent.[8]. He denied that he had ever been linked to any facet of the British intelligence services, including the Force Research Unit.[6]. They are never ever going to stop targeting people like me. "I still regard Whitley Bay and the Newcastle area as my home.". He is from United Kingdom. OCallaghan claimed to have been tasked in 1984 with placing 25lb of Frangex in the toilet of a theatre in London. This effectively made the IRA a police force in some areas. By the late 1960s, the teenaged OCallaghan had ceased practising the Catholic religion, regarding himself as an atheist and a Marxist. As the Sinn Fin leadership under Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness turned toward a peace process strategy, Donaldson was dispatched to New York City, where he helped establish Friends of Sinn Fin, an organisation that solicited mainstream political and financial support for the new strategy while attempting to isolate hard-line activists in Irish Northern Aid and other support organisations in the US. The information he supplied to the security agencies over several years is widely credited with having saved the lives of at least 50 British police officers and soldiers. I wonder how well briefed the Home Secretary is? Previous Year's Net . In 1969, violent attacks were perpetrated against civil rights organizers and many other Catholics by unionists. [7], McGartland became involved in petty crime, which brought him to the notice of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Northumbria Police continue to cover-up Martin's attempted murder. OCallaghans father, who had served in the IRA, had been interned during World War II at the Curragh Camp in County Kildare.[1]. After the case, In June 1999, the IRA shot Martin McGartland no fewer than 5 times outside his home in whitley bay, England. He earned the money being a professional Writer. Martin "Marty" McGartland (born 30 January 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland)[1] is a former British agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)[2] in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch. In 2003, Scappaticci was alleged to have volunteered as an informer in 1978 after being assaulted in an argument with a fellow IRA member. Furthermore, it recommends that key roles in that fresh investigation should be filled by persons not connected to NP (Northumbria police). In February 2009, Garda announced they had a new lead in the inquiry into his death. If I was leaving the house and going to a place of work at the same time everyday I would be a sitting duck. Martin McGartland 02 August 2019 Dear Cambridgeshire Police / PSD, I note that you have dated your reply of today as 15 July BUT have sent it to. After becoming a full-time volunteer, OCallaghan was involved in various IRA operations, including a May 1974 mortar attack on a British army base at Clogher, County Tyrone in which a female Greenfinch Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier, Private Eva Martin, was killed. As of September 2008, no one has been charged with the shooting. [citation needed] He claimed to have been in regular contact with its leaders, Gerry Adams (now TD for Louth) and Martin McGuinness (now deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland). [1], In Unsung Hero, Fulton claims he worked undercover as a British Army agent within the IRA. OCallaghan was released as part of a Prerogative of Mercy by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. "[43], Despite McGartland being known as one of the best agents to operate during the Troubles,[44] British Home Secretary Theresa May told a court in early 2014 that she refused to confirm or deny that he was a British agent working for MI5, offering as explanation "in case providing such information would endanger his life or damage national security". He recounted in his book Fifty Dead Men Walking that he occasionally drove IRA punishment squads around and overheard them boast about the beatings they had meted out to their victims. [34], In 2000, Lord Vivian asked in the House of Lords whether the government intended to remove police protection from McGartland and was told by Lord Bassam of Brighton that "Individual protection arrangements are a matter for the chief constable of the police force concerned and are not discussed for security reasons. Ms Asher, who is Mr McGartland's full-time carer, resettled with him after he was tracked down and shot seven times by an IRA hit squad at their home in Gateshead in 1999. POLICE investigating the attempted murder of British agent Martin McGartland have failed to arrest or question a man identified as a suspect more than 10 years ago.The shocking revelation was made by cops reviewing the original police probe into the 1999 shooting which left the IRA infiltrator fighting for his life.The top secret review, headed About Martin McGartland. [22] Diaries of the late Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix, head of the Northern Ireland Police Counter-Surveillance Unit, revealed that he and the other Special Branch officers had advised senior RUC officers against stopping the gun couriers vehicles as doing so would put McGartlands life at risk as well as allow the actual IRA gunmen to escape. He has written two books; Fifty Dead Men Walking and Dead Man Running. OCallaghan served his sentence in prisons in Northern Ireland and England and foiled several planned escapes by imprisoned IRA members. [14] He convinced his IRA associates that he was a committed member of the organisation and he successfully led a double life, which was kept secret even from the mother of his two sons. He was believed to have operated predominantly inside the IRA South Down Brigade, as well as concentrating on the heavy IRA activity in South Armagh. I am the victim of an attack and I got around 50,000 in compensation, which is not a big amount considering my injuries. [40][41], After the 1994 ceasefire, McGartland appealed to be allowed to return home to West Belfast. Martin "Marty" McGartland (born 30 January 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) [1] is a former British agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) [2] in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch.. They in no way reflect my own opinions and I take no responsibility for any inaccuracies or factual errors, The Informer BBC Panorama Martin McGartland, Born into a staunchly Irish republican, Roman Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McGartland grew up in a council house in Moyard, Ballymurphy at the foot of the Black Mountain. Two shotgun cartridges were found at the threshold of the cottage and a post mortem revealed that he had died from a shotgun blast to the chest. [15] In 1998, he published a book, Dead Ground (ISBN 0-7515-2621-5), telling of his experiences. The animal Canada tried to destroy. [41][42], After the 1994 ceasefire, McGartland appealed to be allowed to return home to West Belfast. You have subscribed to Smashwords Alerts new release notifications for Martin McGartland. [8] McGartland says because he was sickened by increasing Provisional IRA violence directed at young Catholic petty lawbreakers in the form of punishment beatings (often carried out with iron bars and baseball bats) and knee-cappings, in 1986 at the age of 16 he agreed to provide information to the RUC about local IRA members, thereby preventing them from carrying out many attacks against the security forces. Sean OCallaghan (born 26 January 1954) is a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). His accusations centre on various individuals who died as a result of the activities of the ISU between 1980 and 1990. [15] He also worked closely with Belfast actress Rosena Brown, a prominent and highly skilled IRA intelligence officer. Martin was shot 6 times by the IRA in June 1999. In 1981 he was arrested by French authorities at Orly airport, along with fellow IRA volunteer, William Blue Kelly. The scale of the pay-out for which he is liable is to be assessed at a later stage, See Is time running out for Freddie Scappaticci. [5][6], On 26 November 2013, it was reported that The Irish News had won a legal battle after a judge ruled against Keeleys lawsuit against the newspaper for breach of privacy and copyright, by publishing his photograph, which thereby also, he argued, endangered his life. Martin Marty McGartland (born 30 January 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland)[1] is a former British agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)[2] in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch. "It's all been a rollercoaster. When he was exposed as an agent in 1991 he was abducted by the IRA, but escaped and was resettled in England. 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