According to the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM) biography page on Power, he was from Friendly Street[1] in the Markets area of south Belfast, where he had become an activist.

[5] Power, the ex-INLA chief of staff Hugh Torney told the authors Henry McDonald and Jack Holland, wanted to build a consensus within the INLA against Gerard Steenson, although he was willing to accept back the rest of the IPLO.

[3] Power had been out of prison a month when,[6] aged 33, he was shot and killed on 20 January 1987 while drinking tea[7] Rosnaree Hotel on the Dublin Road, outside Drogheda[8] in County Louth, Ireland, along with INLA leader John "Jap" O'Reilly.

[14]These ideas were adopted by the INLA just before Power's death and were finally implemented within the movement as a whole under the direction of Gino Gallagher.

[15] Jack Holland and Henry McDonald posited that "[S]ubordinating military struggle to carefully thought-out political strategy had been Ta Power's dream for a long time.