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When she appeared in courtroom for sentencing, she declared herself “proudly, incorruptibly responsible”. She was jailed for 9 years for receiving the stolen work, with one other 9 years to run concurrently for the helicopter hijack.
Throughout her trial, she found that she was pregnant. The daddy was Eddie Gallagher, her confederate in each crimes. Requested by Dugdale’s biographer, Sean O’Driscoll, how their relationship developed, Gallagher said: “You know how if you end up thrown collectively and there’s a bathe of hounds chasing you to attempt to put you in jail, and you find yourself within the one mattress. So what are you going to do, like? You’ll be able to solely discuss for thus lengthy.”
Dugdale gave beginning to her son, Ruairi, in Limerick Jail, and, in 1978, Dugdale and Gallagher had been married within the jail chapel.
Dugdale was launched in 1980 and moved to Dublin to lift her son. Whereas her early days as an IRA wannabe might have been faintly absurd, her later years took a deadlier flip. Sean O’Driscoll, creator of Heiress, Insurgent, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Lifetime of Rose Dugdale, told the BBC that there was proof she was concerned in growing IRA arms, describing how she often visited a County Mayo protected home the place they might check weapons on the seaside.
