Eamon Ryan (1946/47 – 7 August 1979) was an Irish civil servant and murder victim. He and his wife Bernadette had two children, Peter and Dorothy.
Ryan had been studying for a master's degree at
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
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, motto_English = It will last i ...
. On 7 August 1979, he was in the
Allied Irish Bank
Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. is one of the so-called Big Four commercial banks in Ireland. AIB offers a full range of personal, business and corporate banking services. The bank also offers a range of general insurance products such as home, trav ...
in
Tramore, County Waterford, when it was raided by the
Provisional IRA. Eamonn Nolan and Aaron O'Connell were later found guilty of his murder and given life sentences. The getaway driver, Bill Hayes, served nine years in prison. Ryan's death became the subject of media attention in 2013 when his family criticized
Sinn Féin for giving an award to Hayes. In reply, Hayes said he wanted to offer his deep sympathy and apologies to Eamon Ryan's family for what they had suffered.
Getaway car driver sorry for IRA killing 30 years ago
independent.ie; accessed 5 October 2015.
See also
* Mary Travers (murder victim)
Mary Travers (Irish language, Irish: Máire Ó Treabhair; 1962 – 8 April 1984) was a teacher who was shot dead in Belfast on 8 April 1984 by Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA gunmen trying to assassinate her father, Thomas, a ...
* Patrick Kelly (Irish soldier)
Pte Patrick Kelly (10 May 1948 – 16 December 1983) was an Irish Army private in the Defence Forces killed during the rescue of kidnapped supermarket executive Don Tidey. He was posthumously awarded the Military Star decoration.
Family li ...
* Murder of Thomas Oliver
* Killing of Jerry McCabe
Detective Garda Jerry McCabe (22 November 1943 – 7 June 1996) was a member of the Garda Síochána, the national police force of Ireland. McCabe was killed in Adare, County Limerick on 7 June 1996, by members of the Provisional IRA, during the ...
* Murder of James Curran
James Curran (c. 1962 – 3 April 2005) was the victim of a politically charged murder conspiracy in Ireland.
Background
James Curran was a native of The Liberties, Dublin, a neighborhood heavily beset since the 1980s by both drugs abuse and drug ...
* Murder of Gillian Johnston
Gillian Johnston was a chemist and shop worker from Northern Ireland who was murdered by the IRA on 18 March 1988; she was aged 21 at the time of her murder.
Overview
Johnston was a 21-year-old chemist and shop worker from Tonaghgorm, Legg, near ...
References
External links
Incident
cain.ulst.ac.uk
independent.ie
irishcentral.com
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1940s births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Murder victims from County Waterford
People killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Deaths by firearm in the Republic of Ireland
Deaths by person in the Republic of Ireland
Terrorism deaths in Ireland
People murdered in the Republic of Ireland
Living people
1979 murders in the Republic of Ireland