What is Bobby Storey?
[[File:Cropped image of Bobby Storey.jpg|right|200px]] '''Robert Storey''' (11 April 1956 – 21 June 2020) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Sinn Fein]] [[politician]]. He was a member of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) from [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]. He was sentenced to a total of 25 years in jail but was released early under the terms of the [[Belfast Agreement]]. He also played a key role in the [[Maze Prison escape]] in 1983, the biggest [[prison escape]] in the [[history of the United Kingdom]].<ref>''An Phoblacht'', 18.12 2008. Pg. 8–9</ref> Storey died on 21 June 2020 at a hospital in [[England]] from problems caused by [[lung]] surgery, aged 64.<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Neill |first1=Julian |title=Republican Bobby Storey dies following illness |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53129384 |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=BBC News |date=21 June 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050111/debtext/50111-16.htm House of Commons Hansard Debates for 11 January 2005] – House of Commons debate containing allegations against Storey *[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/politics/docs/odoherty.htm#prologue The Trouble with Guns] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524032504/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/politics/docs/odoherty.htm#prologue |date=2006-05-24 }} – journalist Malachi O'Doherty's account of a meeting with Storey in 1995 {{DEFAULTSORT:Storey, Bobby}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Politicians from Belfast]] [[Category:Provisional Irish Republican Army]] [[Category:Terrorists]] {{bio-stub}}