DEATH AFTER HUNGER AND THIRST STRIKE
Received Sundav, 7 p.m. DUBLIN, May 11. - After a 23-dayS ' hunger strike aud some days' thirst strike. Sean McGaughey died in Maryborough Prison. Relatives walked oUt of the inquest when the eoroner ret'USed evidence of treatment before the strike,. I IMeGaughey was 32 years of age and | was sefving a life sontence' for his flart in the illegal imprisonmetit of an I.R.A. chief of stnff who was sentenced to i death by former colleagues but escaped from them and, still manacled and blindfolded, appeared in a Dubliti street artd asked a pasfcerby to help him to the police. From the daj' sentenee began McCaughey refused prison elothes. He was forbidden the use of his own so wore prison blankets.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1946, Page 5
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