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- Owen Martin O'Hagan (23 June 1950 – 28 September 2001) was an Irish investigative journalist from Lurgan, Northern Ireland. After leaving the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA) and serving time in prison, he began a 20-year journalism career, during which he reported on paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland before being murdered in September 2001. Born in Lurgan to Catholic and republican parents, several members of his family became prominent in paramilitary activities and politics. After returning to Lurgan from West Germany, where his father had worked for the British Army, he left school to work at his family's television repair shop. He soon became involved in both the Official Sinn Féin (which, after renouncing paramilitary activity, evolved into the Workers' Party of Ireland) and the Official IRA. He was arrested and questioned over various crimes, including the murder of a police officer and a soldier, and was eventually sentenced for firearms offences in 1973. After serving five years in Long Kesh prison, O'Hagan began a journalism career with Fortnight and the Sunday World. He reported on violent and drug-related crimes committed by paramilitaries, like Robin Jackson, and worked with the Channel 4 programme Dispatches on alleged killings by security forces and Loyalists. He was abducted in 1989 by members of the Provisional IRA, and angered Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) leader Billy Wright after reporting on his activities. While Wright was killed in prison in 1997, threats continued to be made against O'Hagan by members of the new Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), which Wright had founded. On 28 September 2001, while walking home from the pub with his wife, O'Hagan was shot from a moving car and died at the scene. The chief suspects were members of the LVF, but no one has yet been sentenced for the crime. Trials were held against five men in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but the cases soon collapsed and one suspect was dismissed as a witness. Security forces have been accused of covering for O'Hagan's murderers, with accusations of direct police involvement in the killing. O'Hagan was the only journalist killed while working during The Troubles, and the last killed in the United Kingdom before the death of Lyra McKee in 2019. (en)
- Iriseoir ab ea Martin 'Marty' O'Hagan (23 Meitheamh 1960 – 28 Meán Fómhair 2001). Maraíodh an chéad iriseoir ó thuaidh ar 28 Meán Fómhair 2001 nuair a scaoil dílseoirí Marty O’Hagan sa Lorgain i gContae Ard Mhacha agus é ag siúl chun an bhaile lena bhean chéile i ndiaidh oíche sa teach tábhairne. Bhí O'Hagan ar an chéad iriseoir i dTuaisceart Éireann arb é a ghairm iriseora ba shiocair báis dó. Ag an am, bhí sé ag fiosrú na bainte idir an LVF agus na seirbhísí slándála. Ba é an chéad duine a maraíodh toisc gur iriseoir a bhí ann. Trí na Trioblóidí ar fad, níor maraíodh iriseoir ar bith, ainneoin gur tháinig an Tuaisceart trí thréimhse iontach corraithe. (ga)
- Owen Martin O'Hagan (Lurgan, 23 giugno 1950 – Lurgan, 28 settembre 2001) è stato un giornalista irlandese che fu assassinato dalla Loyalist Volunteer Force. È stato l'unico giornalista in attività ucciso nell'Irlanda del Nord fino alla morte di nel 2019. (it)
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