Jim McCormack

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Jim McCormack, also known as Dim McCormack, was one of the three men the Daily Mail named on March 9, 2005, as responsible for the murder of Robert McCartney, a Catholic nationalist, in Belfast some weeks before.

James McCormack grew up in the nationalist Markets area of South Belfast and is a relatively recent addition to Provisional Irish Republican Army ranks. At school, he had a reputation as a bully, and as a teenager he was in trouble for joyriding before graduating to burglary. However, according to the BBC, his most recent address was in England at Victoria Road, Stechford, Birmingham.

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.

The others named by the Daily Mail were Gerard Davison and Gerard Montgomery. The Mail stated that McCormack, aged about 36, 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 Ulster Freedom Fighters members and renowned killers of Catholics, Joe Bratty and Raymond Elder, in the months running up to the 1994 IRA ceasefire. (Bratty and Elder were believed to be the ones who shot Bernadette and Michael McAliskey.) These murders apparently 'made' them among Belfast republicans, and enshrined their reputations as "hard men".

McCormack is also a close friend and associate of Bobby Storey, a high ranking member of the PIRA, in whose company he has often been seen (as per Liam Clark, The Times, Sunday March 27, 2005).

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