The book explores the ripple effect of the 1983 kidnapping.
The actions of the provisional IRA in the Don Tidey kidnapping of 1983 had a ripple effect that devastated the lives of not just the bereaved, but of the next generation in those families.
'The Kidnapping' is a new book that details both the incident of the terrorist group's kidnapping of the Quinnsworth Chief Executive 40 years ago, and the subsequent aftershock.
Private Patrick Kelly and Garda Gary Sheehan were killed in a volley of machine gun fire in a stand-off between the Irish security services and the kidnappers.
Katherine Kelly was widowed and left with four children in Moate.
According to the book, an abusive former colleague of Patrick Kelly's inflicted further pain on his family, and moved them to hire-rise flats in London.
Co-Author Ronan McGreevy says all of this is why Katherine's son sought confrontation with a former IRA man who was running for the Irish Presidency in 2011:
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