It was a depressing night on January 25, 2013 when Detectives Joe Ryan and Adrian Donohoe had been tasked with a routine obligation – escorting credit score union takings throughout Cooley Peninsula. Ranging from Omeath and ending within the quaint village of Lordship, Co Louth, they remained vigilant attributable to previous burglaries.
The money alternate was made and the convoy of gardaí and volunteers started edging their automobiles in direction of the exit. All the things was going to plan.
Instantly, and at velocity, a Volkswagen Passat blocked the stone exit of the carpark. It was an ambush. 4 males in balaclavas, two of whom had been armed, jumped the rear wall of the credit score union. The lads with weapons ran in direction of the unmarked garda automotive Adrian Donohoe and Joe Ryan had been sitting in.
Det Gda Donohoe, unaware of the approaching hazard, stepped out of the automobile. He was fatally shot within the head from point-blank vary. The assailants grabbed the money and fled in direction of Carlingford. The entire incident lasted simply 58 seconds.
Right now on The Indo Day by day, Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Irish Unbiased senior journalist Robin Schiller, and Pat Marry, former senior investigating officer on the Adrian Donohoe case. Each males are co-authors of ‘Homicide in Lordship: Contained in the Hunt for a Detective’s Killer’. Within the first of a two-part particular on the 2013 killing of Det Gda Donohoe, they focus on one in all Eire’s greatest manhunts, and the years-long detective work that goes into catching a garda killer.