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Apr 15, 2021 · The day the IRA tried and failed to kidnap billionaire retail giant Galen Weston at his Wicklow home. The gun battle raged across the neatly mown lawn of his lakeside mansion. Canadian-born...
Feb 23, 2024 · On August 8th, 1983 the IRA attempted to kidnap the Anglo-Canadian businessman Galen Weston from his Irish home in Roundwood, Co Wicklow.
- Ronan Mcgreevy
In August 1983, Weston was the target of an attempted kidnapping by the Irish Republican Army from his estate in Ireland. The police had been tipped off about the attempt and set up an ambush for the kidnappers.
Apr 15, 2021 · In 1983 the IRA tried unsuccessfully to kidnap Galen Weston. The attempt failed when gardaí, belonging to the anti-terrorist unit, opened fire on the five-member gang when they arrived at the 200-acre estate of the Westons in Co. Wicklow.
Apr 17, 2021 · And, to cap it all, he narrowly escaped being kidnapped by the IRA. Any one of these would have marked a man as someone out of the ordinary. For Weston, they were all merely individual incidents...
Jan 6, 1998 · Three weeks before the kidnapping, five men had been sentenced to jail terms of up to 14 years for their part in a shoot-out outside the Irish home of the Canadian millionaire, Mr Galen...
Apr 14, 2021 · In 1983, Weston was the target of an attempted kidnapping in Ireland. Police sources told the New York Times after the plot was foiled that the Provisional Irish Republican Army was behind the...
