Summary
Joe Cahill, a leading figure in the IRA for more than half a century and once sentenced to death for killing a policeman, has died at the age of 84.
He died at his home in Belfast of the asbestosis he contracted working in the Harland and Wolff shipyards during the 1950s.See the full content of this document
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Joe Cahill; Prominent and Long-Standing Member of the Ira
Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, who was a Cahill protege from the 1970s, described his mentor as: "an unapologetic physical-force republican who fought when he fe...
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