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INLA killed him for attack he'd nothing to do with...

CORMAC LOONEY – 27 OCTOBER 2011 10:05 AM

MARTIN CAHILL was not involved in the Widow Scallan's shooting the attack which may have cost him his life.

New information has come to light which reveals that a Belfast wing of the UVF were the sole suspects for carrying out the 1991 pub attack in which an IRA man was shot dead.

The General was blamed for assisting the UVF, but a new book by crime reporter Paul Williams reveals that the gardai and RUC did not consider him a suspect.

Despite this, the IRA claimed Cahill co-operated with loyalists to carry out the shooting, triggering a dispute between the General and republicans which culminated in this murder three years later.

"In the wake of the Widow Scallan's incident there was intense speculation that a criminal gang from Dublin had assisted the hit team. The Provos soon pointed the finger of suspicion at their old adversary Martin Cahill," Williams writes in Badfellas.







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"Neither Cahill nor any Dublin criminals were involved in the attack. Both the RUC and the gardai established that a UVF group from Belfast was actually responsible."

And despite claims that Cahill's gang supplied the car used in the incident it has emerged that the vehicle, a Triumph Acclaim, had been bought a day before the shooting, from a car dealer in Lurgan.

Although police believed that Cahill was innocent of any involvement, Dublin criminals John Gilligan and John Traynor told the IRA he was involved in the shooting regardless, Williams writes.

"Gilligan and Traynor were two people the Provos didn't have to approach for information. Factory John and The Coach had begun plotting the murder of their former pal but if the Provos -- or the INLA-- did it for them, then so much the better."

The pub shooting kicked off a chain of events which eventually saw Cahill in a dispute with INLA figures in Dublin. The culmination of this was his murder outside his Rathmines home on August 18, 1994. Gardai believe the INLA was responsible for the attack.

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There is a theory that Martin Cahill was murdered by the Provisional IRA because he was dealing with the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). This version suggests that the arrest in Istanbul of three UVF men trying to sell three Beit paintings was evidence of Cahill's links to the loyalists.

When Cahill was shot dead in August 1994, the IRA issued a statement saying that he had been killed because he had been in cahoots with the loyalists. They claimed he had helped them carry out a failed bomb attack on a Sinn Fein function at the Widow Scallan's pub in Dublin earlier that year, in which an IRA doorman had been shot dead.

The UVF have always denied this and claimed they had never heard of Martin Cahill until he was shot dead. But they did say their members had bought three paintings through an intermediary, Tommy Coyle, a leading underworld "fence" based in Drogheda who was known throughout the British and Irish underworld.

The Mid-Ulster UVF had apparently made a deal with Coyle and took the paintings as payment, they say.

A few weeks later the IRA called its first ceasefire..

It was not until a few years later, however, that a more plausible version of events came to light -- and John Traynor was at the centre of it.

After the murder of Veronica Guerin, a semi-autonomous investigation team was set up in Lucan Garda Station under the direction of Assistant Commissioner Tony Hickey.

The Lucan team quickly discovered that John Traynor had been an informant for someone high up in the gardai. Given his relationship with Gilligan, Traynor was also a suspect in the murder.

As the Lucan team delved into Traynor's activities, this separate version of events surrounding Cahill's murder emerged. Traynor had negotiated a deal between Cahill and Gilligan that would effectively set up Gilligan's drug-importing empire.

Cahill had a large amount of cash that he needed to invest for his retirement -- he was suffering from worsening health due to diabetes. He agreed to put up a large sum, up to £600,000, to finance Gilligan's first large shipment of cannabis from his Lebanese contact in Amsterdam. In return, Gilligan would repay Cahill the £600,000, plus another £600,000, along with a percentage of all subsequent shipments. With Traynor present, a deal was struck. Within 18 months of his release from Portlaoise in 1993, John Gilligan was in the big time. The shipment came through; but he still had to pay about £1.2m to the ailing Martin Cahill.

The Lucan detectives discovered that at around the same time, Traynor had struck up a close relationship with the group called the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). This was little less than a few dozen ex-paramilitaries who still traded on the name of one of the most murderous terrorist groups to have emerged in the Troubles.

Traynor had used the Dublin INLA to pass several hundred thousand pounds- worth of dud cheques.

Although small in number, the INLA did have several members who were proficient in the use of firearms. More importantly, the INLA leadership had had a dispute with Martin Cahill, who had publicly humiliated them. They wanted revenge.

Gilligan was faced with the situation where he could either pay Martin Cahill a huge portion of his profits, or not. The latter required that Cahill be killed. It is believed that, through Traynor, the INLA was recruited to make that happen.

To shift the blame, the INLA arranged for their friends in the Dublin IRA to claim responsibility. It is believed that the INLA and IRA received £30,000 each for their part, with further payments in guns and cash as part of a "protection" deal for Gilligan and his gang. Gilligan was now in business, and Traynor was the king-maker who put him there.