Jim McCormack

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Jim McCormack, also known as 'Dim' McCormack, was one of the three men the Daily Mail named on the 9th March 2005 as responsible for the murder of Robert McCartney.

Jim McCormack, 36, lives in the Catholic Markets and is a relatively recent addition to IRA ranks. At school, he had a reputation as a bully and as a teenager he was in trouble for joyriding before graduating to burglary. In January 1984, while a teenager, Mr McCormack was questioned over an arson attack on a leisure centre in which six people died, including three children.

On the 9 March 2005, the Daily Mail named the following men as three of the four men – the others named were Gerard Davison and Gerard Montgomery – responsible for the murder of Robert McCartney. The Mail stated that McCormack, aged about 42, is the Officer Commanding of the Belfast Brigade of the IRA, and has close ties with Gerry Adams.

The Mail also stated that both McCormack and Montgomery shot and killed UFF members and renowned killers of Catholics Joe Bratty and Raymond Elder in the months running up to the 1994 ceasefire. These murders apparently 'made' them amongst Belfast Republicans, and enshrined their reputations as "hard men".

McCormack is also a close friend and associate of Bobby Storey, in who's company he has often being seen in the past number of months (Liam Clark, The Times, Sunday 27 March 2005).