Shooting of Brian Stack

Killing of Brian Stack
LocationPortlaoise Prison, Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland
Date25 March 1983 (1983-03-25) (shooting)
29 September 1984 (1984-09-29) (death)
Attack type
Homicide by shooting
Deaths1
VictimBrian Stack
PerpetratorsProvisional Irish Republican Army members

The shooting of Brian Stack occurred on 25 March 1983. Stack was the chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, and he was shot in the neck by members of the Provisional IRA. He died after 18 months in hospital on 29 September 1984. He was the only officer in the Irish Prison Service to be killed in connection with the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Political controversy arose in 2016 around allegations that Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Féin, knew the identity of the killers.

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