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Podcast: Crime World
Episode: Episode 519: The death of Garda killer and IRA volunteer Pearse McAuley
Description: IRA killer Pearse McAuley lived a life of violence as an IRA volunteer and later as a prison bully and a brutal domestic abuser.Found dead aged 59 at his home in Strabane in County Tyrone he leaves behind a legacy of fear and intimidation spanning decades of controversy.One of a four man team who shot dead Detective Garda Jerry McCabe during a botched post officer robbery in 1996 he was given the full support of Sinn Fein as a political prisoner.But when he attacked and stabbed his former wife, Sinn...