Michael John McGoldrick (18 June 1965 – 8 July 1996) was a taxi driver murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
[7] The annual march had been contentious, with loyalists passing through a majority nationalist community holding banners and playing drums and pipes.
[9] As a response, the Mid-Ulster brigade of the Ulster Volunteer Force led by Billy Wright sought to unilaterally break the ceasefire the group was operating under, and murder civilians from nationalist areas.
[10] Instead members of the brigade, as a "birthday present" to leader Wright,[11] preyed on the province's taxi services which, because of previous murders during The Troubles, had grown unofficially segregated serving mainly the same communities as the drivers.
[12] A taxi was ordered in the late evening from the Minicabs depot in Lurgan under the name "Lavery" going from the local cinema to Aghagallon and McGoldrick responded to the call.
[15] Wright was killed less than 18 months after McGoldrick's death by the Irish National Liberation Army in Long Kesh prison, and his group disbanded in August 1998.