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Jim Hanna (loyalist)
James Andrew "Jim" Hanna, also known as Red Setter〔Steve Bruce, ''The Red Hand'', Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 141〕 (c. 1947 – 1 April 1974), was a senior member of the Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) until he was shot dead by fellow members, for being an alleged informer. Journalists Joe Tiernan and Kevin Myers described him as having been the senior military leader of the UVF. Tiernan also suggested that he was part of a UVF unit that planted car bombs in Dublin in December 1972 and January 1973 which left three people dead and 145 injured. Tiernan claimed that Hanna was controlled by four British Army Intelligence Corps officers who frequently visited his home in Lisburn.
==Ulster Volunteer Force==
Hanna was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland in about 1947, and was raised in the Protestant religion. Physically he was tall and red-haired, and possessed an outgoing, friendly personality.〔"Her body simply disintegrated in our arms". ''Sunday Business Post''. Vincent Browne. 4 December 2003〕 He lived in his native Lisburn where he worked as a self-employed plumbing and heating engineer.〔McKittrick, David (1999). ''Lost Lives''. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. p. 434〕 He joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) on an unknown date, although he had come to prominence in the gun battles that took place between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and UVF that took place during the early 1970s at Springmartin Road (an interface marking the approximate boundary between the loyalist Highfield estate area of the Greater Shankill and the republican Ballymurphy/New Barnsley areas).〔Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald (1997). ''UVF''. Poolbeg. p. 152〕 Despite being from Lisburn Hanna was a member of the Shankill Road UVF.〔 He moved up in the ranks to eventually become a senior member of the paramilitary organisation and one of its Brigade Staff. According to journalist Joe Tiernan, he was the "head of the UVF in Northern Ireland".〔("Dublin and Monaghan bombings: Cover-up and incompetence". page 1. ''Politico''. Joe Tiernan. 3 May 2007 )〕 Kevin Myers also maintained he was the senior military commander for the UVF.〔 Martin Dillon in ''The Dirty War'' stated that he was the senior UVF commander in 1973.〔Dillon, Martin (1991). ''The Dirty War''. London: Arrow Books. p. 277〕 Jim Hanna was no relation to Billy Hanna of Lurgan, who formed the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade in 1972 and appointed himself its first commander.
Tiernan alleged that together with Ken Gibson, a leading UVF member from East Belfast, and Billy Mitchell, a senior man from the Shankill Road, Hanna led the Belfast UVF team that planted car bombs in Dublin. These bombings were carried out on 1 December 1972 and 20 January 1973 and caused explosions near Liberty Hall on Eden Quay and Sackville Place, in the city centre, leaving a total of three people dead and 144 injured. Sackville Place, off Dublin's main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street, was bombed twice, first on 1 December, then again on 20 January; the three fatalities occurred there.〔
The bombing unit was allegedly controlled and directed by officers from the British Army Intelligence community operating from Army Headquarters in Lisburn. In several interviews Tiernan conducted with Mitchell in the 1990s, the latter recounted that Hanna (whom he tellingly referred to as "his boss") was "run as an agent" by four officers from Army Intelligence based at Lisburn, naming them as two captains, one lieutenant, and an SAS officer. These men were frequent visitors to Hanna's home in Lisburn and they brought him to Army Headquarters for regular briefings on how to conduct the UVF campaign. Mitchell added that Hanna's wife Susan had unsuccessfully tried to persuade him to emigrate to the United States with the aim of removing him from the violence of The Troubles and his associations with the British Army.〔 Kevin Myers, who enjoyed a close friendship with Hanna despite their political differences, had in his possession photographs Hanna had given him showing two leading intelligence officers from the British Army in Hanna's house. Hanna was even posing with a regulation British Army rifle in one of the pictures, the weapon belonging to one of the two officers.〔Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald (1997). ''UVF''. Poolbeg. p. 146〕
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