Martin Cahill The general

Martin Cahill "The General" was a criminal from Dublin, who was assassinated in 1994 by the IRA at the time he was under 24 hour police surveillance, on the day he was killed, there was no police to be seen.

Art thief - pulled off an art heist with paintings worth more than 1million.
Diamond thief - him and his crew successfully robbed one of the main jewellers, not even the IRA could do that

Crucified one of his associates by nailing him to a snooker table, eventually let him go because no one would endure that much pain if they were guilty.

Once found out where the police played golf, their golf club and destroyed all the greens, they returned the favour by killing all of his pigeons.

He used to give himself an alibi by sleeping in police on the nights the crimes were taking place

There was more, a really good story and movie was made about him starring Brendan Gleeson and John Voight, called the General.

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Originally aired on RTE News

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