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1989 Renault 5 Série 2 [X40]

1989 Renault 5 [X40] in Veronica Guerin, Movie, 2003 IMDB

Class: Cars, Hatchback — Model origin: FR

1989 Renault 5 Série 2 [X40]

Position 00:25:07 [*][*] Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

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jpts AU

2016-12-05 03:57

This scene was an reenactment of the murder of Martin "The General" Cahill who was shot by members of the Provisional IRA as he sat in his car at the intersection of Oxford Road and Charleston Road in Ranelagh, Dublin on the morning of the 18th August 1994.

Martin Cahill was a career criminal in the Dublin Underworld, throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s, he was named in several burglaries and armed robberies.

Cahill started off his criminal career as a thief at the age of 15 with his older brother, John.

At the age of 16, Cahill had served time in an industrial school for burglary, after his release, Cahill and his older brother continued to commit burglaries in the wealthy areas near where he and his wife, Frances' home at Rathmines in Dublin's Southside Area.

Among the burglaries the Cahill Brothers committed, they stole several confiscated firearms from the Garda Síochána depot.

By the early 1970s, the Cahill Brothers joined up with the Dunne Gang based in the Dublin's Southside Area of Crumlin and started to commit several armed robberies on security vans and ended on the radar of the Dublin Central Detective Unit.

According to Cahill's former associate, Christy "Bronco" Dunne (the brother of later Dunne Gang leader, Larry Dunne), while Cahill was in prison, he had started to build up contacts with the Provisional IRA and copied their tactics when he committed armed robberies.

On the 29th January 1981, Cahill and an associate committed an armed robbery on a computer games store at Clondalkin, 10km southwest of Dublin where Cahill and his associate had got away with IR£5,000, but in their haste, they left behind their getaway motorcycle and the money.

Forensic scientist, James O'Donovan (who was known for his forensic work in the investigation of the IRA's Assassination of the maternal uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin of King George VI, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma on the 27th August 1979) had found 58 separate prints, linking Cahill to the robbery, while on bail, in early December 1981, Cahill put a bomb under O'Donovan's car, while O'Donovan was travelling on the Naas Road, the bomb detonated, blowing the car onto the central reservation, O'Donovan survived with minor injuries.

A month later, on the 6th January 1982, Cahill tried again to , this time he placed the bomb under the bonnet of O'Donovan's new car, as Donovan was driving the same stretch of Naas Road, the bomb detonated, destroying the front of the car and disabling O'Donovan.

In 1983, Cahill and his gang had robbed O'Connor's Jewellery Depot at Harold's Cross in South Dublin, resulting in over IR£2 million (or €2.55 million) in gold and diamonds stolen during the raid.

In 1986, Cahill and his gang raided the Russborough House in County Wicklow, 35km south of Dublin and stole 18 paintings totaling IR£30 million, in February 1988, the Garda Special Surveillance Unit, Tango Squad to watch Cahill (call-sign Tango One) and his gang.

Following the arrest of two of his associates and the present surveillance near Cahill's home, on the night of the 26th February 1988, Cahill retaliated by ordering his gang to slash the tyres of 197 vehicles, 90 of the 197 belonged to Cahill's neighbours, Cahill later returned to his home to find his Mercedes-Benz smashed.

-- Last edit: 2022-12-23 14:26:09

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