Donna Maguire (born c. 1967 in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland[1]) is a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) once described as Europe's most dangerous woman.
[1] On 12 July 1989 Maguire and Leonard Hardy were arrested at Rosslare, County Wexford after arriving on a ferry from Cherbourg, and mercury switches, explosives and photographs of British Army bases in Germany were seized.
[1] Maguire was arrested in Belgium near the border with the Netherlands on 16 June 1990, after a farmer reported hearing gunshots in the woods and two handguns, a machine gun and explosives were found nearby.
In March 1991 she was acquitted of the murder of two Australian tourists mistaken for off-duty British soldiers in Roermond in May 1990, a decision which was upheld at an appeal in July of the same year.
[1][7] She was remanded into custody to await trial on other charges relating to the 1989 Osnabrück bombing,[7] and in June 1995 received a nine-year prison sentence after being found guilty of attempted murder, explosives offences and spying on British Army bases in Germany with intent to sabotage.