On this day,10th January 1975- the assassination of Vol.John Francis Green in by pro- British covert agents in Co. Monaghan in the Irish Republic. We have linked this to Ireland Unfreefrom the Wolfetones. youtu.be/8rqEoNMaQBU John Francis Green was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, on 18 December 1946. He was an active member of the Civil Rights campaign in the late 1960s and later joined the IRA. He was forced to go ‘on the run’ following the introduction of internment in August 1971 but was arrested a few months later and interned on the Maidstone prison ship. He was later transferred to Long Kesh from where he escaped in September 1973. Following his escape he lived in the Monaghan and Castleblayney areas. On the evening of 10 January 1975, he left Castleblayney and drove to a farmhouse at Mullyash, where he had been staying. Just after he arrived there the farmer went off to tend to a neighbour’s cattle. When he returned he found his front door smashed in and John Francis dead at the bottom of the stairs. He had been shot several times in the head and body. His killers – widely believed to be a combination of British Army, UDR and unionist paramilitaries – left a number of live bullets on his chest.
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