The remains of Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker Michael Gaughan are returned to Ireland.
In 1971, Michael Gaughan was sentenced at the Old Bailey to seven years imprisonment for his part in an IRA raid on a bank in Hornsey in north London. In March 1974, he joined a hunger strike to obtain political status and to be transferred to a prison in Ireland. He died on 3 June 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight.
On 8 June, Michael Gaughan's remains returned to Ireland to be buried in his native County Mayo.
Hundreds of Provisional Sinn Féin supporters, National Graves Association members and other Republican groups formed a guard of honour at Dublin Airport. The coffin was draped with a Tricolour. A cortège of cars followed the hearse along the five mile journey to Dublin city centre.
Thousands of people lined the streets as the funeral cortège passed down O'Connell Street along the quays to the Church of Adam and Eve.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 8 June 1974.
