Martin O’Hagan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martin O'Hagan
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jun 23, 1950(1950-06-23)
Age	74
Birthplace	Lurgan
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Northern Ireland
Horoscope	Cancer

Martin O'Hagan Biography

Martin O'Hagan is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on June 23, 1950 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

O’Hagan became involved in republican paramilitarism from a young age and by 1972 was O/C of the Official IRA in his home town of Lurgan. On 15 December 1972, O’Hagan and his unit had planned to rob a cash-in-transit van in the Kilwilkie area of Lurgan. As they lay in wait, a routine police patrol came into the area. The police had been delivering presents to a local 8-year-old Catholic girl who had been injured in a road traffic accident that involved a police vehicle. O’Hagan gave the order to attack the police. Constable George Chambers was wounded by O’Hagan, and as he lay on the ground, O’Hagan shot him a number of further times and he died at the scene. O’Hagan then wounded two further police officers and fled the scene. A month later, O’Hagan was part of the gun team that took part in a sectarian attack on a Protestant bar in Lurgan when a young Protestant was shot in the leg. O’Hagan was arrested but later released. A short time later, O’Hagan was arrested by the army whilst in possession of two rifles. He was convicted of possession of firearms with intent, and sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Upon his release he was linked to other paramilitary activity in the Mid Ulster area.

In the late 1980s he was prominently featured in the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Committee, which made allegations of Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) collusion in loyalist murders of Roman Catholics. As a witness in a subsequent libel action against the producer of the programme at the High Court in London, he said: “I have tried to be an independent and objective journalist but my conviction has hung over me like a sword, although I have always tried to be honest about it… I have always tried to be squeaky clean because people will always try to cast this up in my face.”

Martin O'Hagan Net Worth

Martin O'Hagan is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martin O'Hagan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Owen Martin O’Hagan (23 June 1950 – 28 September 2001) was an Irish investigative journalist from Lurgan, Northern Ireland and a former member of the Official Irish Republican Army who spent much of the 1970s in prison. He was assassinated by the Loyalist Volunteer Force, the only journalist to be killed in Northern Ireland before the killing of Lyra McKee in April 2019.

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Five men were arrested and sent for trial in September 2008 for the murder of Martin O’Hagan. However, none were convicted.

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Marvin Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Martin O'Hagan celebrates birthday on June 23 of every year.

His colleagues at the Sunday World (particularly Jim Campbell, who was also attacked in an assassination attempt by loyalist paramilitaries), and the NUJ continue to criticise police and prosecutors in Northern Ireland for the absence to date of any murder convictions. On 6 April 2008 the Sunday World published an article naming Robin King as the killer, and asked why the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) had not arrested and charged him with the murder. In the same issue the newspaper ran a story on the unveiling of a plaque in memory of O’Hagan at Belfast’s Linenhall Library. The Sunday World has run a series of articles which have “targeted the O’Hagan suspects with an extremely accurate weekly account of their activities.”