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Veteran Republican Joe Cahill who died in hospital late last night, Sinn Fein announced. The father figure of the modern Republican movement, Cahill had been jailed on a number of occasions and was sentenced to death in the 1940s for the murder of a policeman, his sentence commuted to life imprisonment after the intervention of the then Pope. Cahill, 84, was an honorary life vice-president of Sinn Fein. He died in Belfast where he had been a leading light in the IRA for many decades, named by the army in the early 1970s as the IRA's chief of staff.

Veteran Republican Joe Cahill who died in hospital late last night, Sinn Fein announced. The father figure of the modern Republican movement, Cahill had been jailed on a number of occasions and was sentenced to death in the 1940s for the murder of a policeman, his sentence commuted to life imprisonment after the intervention of the then Pope. Cahill, 84, was an honorary life vice-president of Sinn Fein. He died in Belfast where he had been a leading light in the IRA for many decades, named by the army in the early 1970s as the IRA's chief of staff. Stock Photo
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23 October 2002

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