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With ken stott, gerard mcsorley, andrew connolly, john kavanagh. A book called the general came out in 1995 and in 1998 a movie of the same name was released. The reallife story of dublin folk hero and criminal martin cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the i. John gilligan tells how martin cahill wanted him to buy. Before he was shot dead in dublin in 1994, the master criminal known as the general. Throughout his adult life, martin cahill derived satisfaction from making fools out of the police, the church, the establishment and devised a series of elaborate pranks to embarrass them.
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