Dessie O’Hare received a seven-year jail term when he pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning Martin Byrne in Rathcoole and Saggart, Co Dublin in 2019. File photograph: Colin Keegan/CollinsMr O’Hare, nicknamed “The Border Fox” after years of avoiding the law on both sides of the Border during his republican days, was jailed by the non-jury Special Criminal Court in April 2019 after admitting to a charge of false imprisonment.
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Mr O’Hare, who was born in 1956 and grew up in Keady, Co Armagh, joined the Provisional IRA at the age of 16. In the late 1970s, he would begin a long association with the INLA, and was involved in various internal feuds within the splinter paramilitary organisation over the years.