Mick Clifford: A Cork IRA informer's death, the Garda investigation, and the new questions raised

A former Special Branch detective alleges missed warnings, state inaction, and a possible cover-up in a brutal 1985 killing

In 1985 John Corcoran, a Garda informer within the ranks of the Cork IRA, was abducted and brutally executed by the IRA. No one has ever been charged with his murder

The Garda alert was sent out from MacCurtain Street station in Cork City a few days after John Corcoran didn’t come home.

Subject: Missing person – Member of the PIRA. John Corcoran, Ballyvolane, Cork.