‘They’ve got Marty’: Twenty-five years on from the unsolved murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan
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It was just after 10 o'clock on a Friday night. Martin O'Hagan and his wife Marie had been for a drink in their local pub in Lurgan. Девокентир when a vehicle began moving slowly behind them. Moments later, a gunman opened fire. O'Hagan was shot and killed. He was fifty-one years old, a husband, a father, and one of Northern Ireland's most fearless investigative journalists.
There wasn't much of him, but when somebody took a swing at him, he could duck as low as the pavement itself, as a doorstep itself. But uh I had go and confront people.
To understand why Martin O'Hagan was murdered, you have to understand the extraordinary life he lived before that night. A former Republican activist who had spent years behind bars, O'Hagan reinvented himself as a journalist and began investigating the very world of paramilitarism and violence he had once known from the inside. And he wasn't afraid of making
enemies. The phone would go in his in his home at two o'clock in the morning. Somebody might whisper a threat down the phone or there would just be nobody on the phone. It was all very threatening and coercive and pressured behaviour.
Republicans had abducted and interrogated him. Loyalists had threatened him. And whose reporting exposed some of the most dangerous figures in Northern Ireland. Yet Martin kept reporting.
I had absolutely no fear about knocking doors and asking questions and going into places that journalists that hadn't really been before.
Then in September 2001, somebody finally silenced him. Twenty-five years on, questions still remain. Who wanted Martin O'Hagan dead? And why has his murder still not been solved? I'm Fionon Sheehan, and today on the Indo Daily, I'm joined by Richard Sullivan, Northern editor of The Sunday World, and Paul Williams, special correspondent with the Irish Dependent, to look back at the remarkable life, brutal murder, and enduring legacy of Martin O'Hagan. Richard Sullivan, before we get into events of twenty-five years ago today, will you just tell me about Martin O'Hagan and his early life?
Yeah, from what I knew of Martin and his early life, he spoke about it at the time. I I was aware that he became politicized, if you like. He was coming of age when the civil rights movement was in full swing and obviously a lot of people were politicized at that time. He was then interned, which again will politicize an awful lot of people. I've spoken to people who were interned with him. I spoke to Marty about it. And it was at that time it started to shape. Has His vision before he was going in life, then when he was released, he got into trouble. He he was holding a a weapon for somebody, as I understand it, and was caught and did time for that. But again, like so many people of his generation who were inside at that time, they made the decision to sort of educate themselves and that's the path that he he took himself on and he set his sights on becoming a journalist.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:33
2
What happened on the night Martin O’Hagan was murdered in Lurgan?
7:33–10:39
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How did Martin O’Hagan’s early life and internment shape his journalism career?
10:39–12:46
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What threats did O’Hagan face from both republican and loyalist paramilitaries?
12:46–26:24
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