{"id":480406,"date":"2026-05-12T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:13:10","slug":"the-businessman-the-ira-bomber-and-the-property-deal-new-searches-carried-out-into-unsolved-2009-murder-of-liam-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480406\/","title":{"rendered":"The businessman, the IRA bomber and the property deal: New searches carried out into unsolved 2009 murder of Liam Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda\u00ed at a site in Rathfarnham, where they began a search relating to the murder of Liam Murray. Photo: Colin Keegan\/Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CC MURRAY SEARCH3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Garda\u00ed at a site in Rathfarnham, where they began a search relating to the murder of Liam Murray. Photo: Colin Keegan\/Collins<\/p>\n<p>Robin Schiller and Ken Foy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the months and years before being shot dead in the bedroom of his south Dublin home, Liam \u2018Blackie\u2019 Murray, who had survived a previous attempt on his life, was subjected to repeated threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A dispute over a property purchase has long been seen as a possible mot\u00adive for the murder with a well-known businessman and a former IRA bomber identified as the main suspects in both the threats and the murder itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed at a site in Rathfarnham, where they began a search relating to the murder of Liam Murray.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,29362,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-480406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-robin-schiller","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116560135117844688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}