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There was a shootout before Nicky Kehoe was arrested. It all happened at the home of wealthy businessman Galan Weston in Co Wicklow on August 7, 1983.

Kehoe and six IRA associates had arrived at the Weston home intent on kidnapping him. But the gardaí had been tipped off and were waiting.

Thankfully, no gardaí were killed during the shoot-out. Kehoe and his comrades were apprehended. It wasn’t a youthful frolic for the 29-year-old gunman from Cabra on Dublin’s northside.