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    The Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape occurred on 31 October 1973 when three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped from Mountjoy Prison...
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    have been multiple prison escapes where an inmate escapes by means of a helicopter. One of the earliest instances was the escape of Joel David Kaplan...
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    Mountjoy Prison (Irish: Príosún Mhuinseo), founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security men's prison located in Phibsborough in...
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  • Army prisoners escaped in the Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape, when a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic...
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  • Twomey, escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin when a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard of the prison. Nineteen IRA members escaped from Portlaoise...
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  • Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that...
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  • Kevin Mallon, Seamus Twomey, escaped from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin in the "spectactular" Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. On 20 December 1974 O'Hagan...
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  • years in prison. Three years after his arrest, Hughes was involved in a fracas and received an additional five-year sentence for assaulting a prison officer...
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  • force-fed by prison authorities for 167 of them. In an interview with Suzanne Breen, Price described being force-fed: Four male prison officers tie you...
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    Bobby Storey (section Prison)
    with conspiring to hijack a helicopter to help Brian Keenan escape from Brixton Prison. Tuite escaped from the same prison prior to the trial, and the...
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