Gerry McGeough

According to Tim Pat Coogan, Gerry McGeough was beaten by RUC interrogators at Cookstown barracks, Co. Tyrone in 1977, and was deported from Britain following a brief visit to London in 1978.

[2] After activity in Ireland and Europe, he was arrested (along with another IRA member, Gerry Hanratty) in August 1988 while crossing the Dutch-German border with two AK47 rifles in his car.

He was charged with attacks on the British Army of the Rhine and held for four years in a specially-built German detention centre.

[8] In May 2006, McGeough, as editor, and Charles Byrne, a 28-year-old from Drogheda, launched a monthly magazine called The Hibernian, dedicated to "Faith, Family and Country".

He put himself forward as a protest against Sinn Féin's vote in January 2007 to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), a key provision of the St Andrews Agreement.

[11] In the same period, McGeough became associated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, taking control of the organisation's branch in County Tyrone.

The Division was noted for the fact that it proudly counted a long list of Irish Republican rebels among its membership since the mid-1800s.

(Board of Erin), a totally separate organisation from its American counterpart and was instrumental in establishing new Divisions in Dublin and Cork.

who had been given specific instructions to stir-up trouble, chaos and dissent in order to cause maximum problems for McGeough’s presidency, pull him down and destroy the organisation in Tyrone.

Commencing in April 2019 a hitherto inactive group of Tyrone Hibernians, who were known to be jealous of McGeough’s successes and virulently opposed to his Republican politics and strong Catholic views, launched an orchestrated campaign of frivolous complaints against his leadership.

Hall on June 29th, 2019, Gerry McGeough was informed on the roadside by a third party that he and a number of others had been expelled and would therefore not be eligible to vote, despite being properly selected delegates.

At no time since the meeting has McGeough received a letter signed by the National Board to confirm his expulsion and explain why it occurred, as is required by the organisation’s Constitution.

Brush, an off-duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was delivering mail in his job as a postman near Aughnacloy when he was shot.

Brush, who was armed and wearing a bullet-proof vest,[13] managed to return fire in the incident and shot his assailant who fled.

The Northern Ireland Office has stated that it is instead Prerogative of Mercy that was applied to a small number of cases under the Early Release Scheme to resolve technical anomalies.

[13] On 8 August 2016 McGeough was reported as saying that 'Catholics serving as judges and prosecutors in the Northern Ireland legal system are "traitors" who will be dealt with as "collaborators" once the English are removed.