Dominic McGlinchey Dominic McGlinchey ( 1954 – 10 February 1994 ) from Bellaghy , County Londonderry , Northern Ireland was a member of Irish republican paramilitary Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) . Background . McGlinchey was born into a large Bellaghy family ( he had 10 siblings ) with a " strong republican background " . Family . In the midst of his paramilitary career , he married Mary McNeill , from County Antrim on 5 July 1975 . The couple had three children : Declan , Dominic , and Máire ( who died as an infant from meningitis ) . Mary herself later became a paramilitary in the INLA . Dominic Jr . also became a republican activist . In October 2006 , Declan McGlinchey was remanded in custody at Derry Magistrates ' Court on explosives charges . The charges were connected to the discovery of a bomb in Bellaghy in July . He has since been cleared of these charges . Declan was again arrested on 14 March 2009 in connection with the murder of Police Service of Northern Ireland Constable Stephen Carroll . No charges have been brought . Paramilitary activities . In August 1971 , at the age of 17 , he was interned without charge for ten months in the prison camps of Ballykelly and Long Kesh . After his release , he was imprisoned again in 1973 on arms charges . After his next release , he joined a South Derry Independent Republican Unit along with Ian Milne and future Provisional IRA hunger strikers Francis Hughes and Thomas McElwee . The unit would later merge with the Provisional IRA . Their activities led the Royal Ulster Constabulary to take the unusual step of issuing wanted posters . IRA . McGlinchey was arrested by the Gardaí in 1977 and charged with hijacking a police vehicle in Monaghan , threatening a police officer with a gun , and resisting arrest . In 1982 , while serving time in Portlaoise Prison , he clashed with the Provisional Irish Republican Army leadership ; he was later expelled from the IRA . INLA . The INLA welcomed McGlinchey because of his previous experience . He joined in 1982 as Operations Officer for South Derry and became Chief of Staff within six months . Under McGlinchey the organisation began to shake off its reputation for disorganization and incompetence . British intelligence agencies reportedly believed that he had planned the Droppin Well bombing in Ballykelly , County Londonderry , it has been alleged that he was targeted for assassination by The ' Det ' . However an attempt to interdict him on 12 December 1982 failed with Roddy Carroll and Seamus Grew being killed as they allegedly ran a checkpoint . ( Those deaths were subsequently investigated by John Stalker as part of his investigation into the Shoot - to - kill policy in Northern Ireland . ) Internal feud . Tim Pat Coogan , a historian of the Republican movement asserted that McGlinchey ' s authority within the INLA was absolute and that he re - enforced it by ordering the deaths of ' anyone he didn ' t like ' . However other authors claimed that decisions were actually taken collectively by a council of leading members , although those disgruntled with the outcomes tended to attribute everything solely to McGlinchey . When a powerful northern unit based around an extended family did not turn over £50 , 000 raised in a fake postal order scheme ( which was essential to the INLA ' s finances ) the scheme ' s originator insisted that unless the offending unit was punished he would not supply any more funds . It was decided , reportedly against McGlinchey ' s objections , that members of the northern faction were to be killed . Two were summoned to a meeting : because Mary McGlinchey was acting as an emissary the pair were lulled into thinking that there would be no danger of violence . However , they were led to waiting gunmen and shot dead . This incident sparked a long - running series of tit for tat revenge killings , including that of Mary , and is theorised to have ultimately led to the death of Dominic McGlinchey . Imprisonment . In March 1984 McGlinchey was wounded in a shoot - out with the Gardaí in Ralahine , Newmarket on Fergus , County Clare and arrested . He was extradited to Northern Ireland and sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of murder . This conviction was overturned in October 1985 by the Belfast Appeals Court on the grounds of insufficient evidence , and McGlinchey was returned to the Republic of Ireland where he was sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment on firearms charges . His wife Mary was killed in her Dundalk home by INLA gunmen who broke in while she was bathing her children on 31 January 1987 . McGlinchey was unable to attend her funeral as he was still imprisoned in the Republic of Ireland . After being released from prison in March 1993 , he investigated claims that Irish criminals were involved in money laundering with the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) . He survived an assassination attempt made by UVF member Billy Wright in June 1993 . Death . On 10 February 1994 , McGlinchey was making a call from a phone box in Drogheda when two men got out of a vehicle and shot him 14 times . No - one has ever been charged with his killing and it is not known who carried out the assassination . His funeral took place in Bellaghy , County Londonderry . The mourners included Martin McGuinness and Ruairí Ó Brádaigh . In spite of their differences McGlinchy was respected amongst the Provisional IRA . The oration was delivered by Bernadette McAliskey . During the oration she described journalists , particularly from the " Sunday Independent " , who had claimed that McGlinchy was involved in criminality as : Song . McGlinchey is the subject of the songs " Paddy Public Enemy Number One " by Shane MacGowan of The Pogues and " Hands up Trousers Down " by The Irish Brigade . The former charts McGlinchey ' s life from his teens through to his eventual killing in a phonebox while the latter references his theft and use of Garda uniforms .