A convicted murderer who was released under the Good Friday Agreement has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court for attempting to kill a man last year.
36-year-old Robert Duffy of Oldbridge, Toberona, Dundalk, but originally from Belfast, admitted trying to murder a man at the Emerald Bar in Dundalk town.
Duffy walked into the pub with a double-barrel shotgun in March 2007. He fired two shots and hit his victim in the hand, neck and back.
His victim survived but suffers long-term injuries.
The Central Criminal Court today heard this was not Robert Duffy's first time to be involved in gun violence.
On 21 October 1993, he was part of an IRA gang that lay in wait for 51-year-old John Gibson as he arrived at his home in north Belfast.
As Mr Gibson got out of his car he was shot a number of times in his driveway. He died later in hospital.
The IRA said it killed him because he worked for a construction company which did work for the RUC.
In 1996, Robert Duffy was jailed for life for that murder but then released after just four years under the Good Friday Agreement.
