O’Hare on temporary release from jail

FORMER INLA leader Dessie O’Hare, who is serving a 40-year sentence for kidnapping and mutilating Dublin dentist John O’Grady in 1987, is on temporary release, it emerged last night.

The 48-year-old, known as the “Border Fox”, is due back in Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon on Sunday.

The granting of temporary freedom to O’Hare will heighten speculation his permanent release will come sooner rather than later.

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