Biography
Noel was an Irish republican prisoner held at FCI Oakdale in Louisiana on US federal charges relating to support for the IRA. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
The FBI account dates Murphy’s arrest to May 20, 1986. Contemporary reporting places sentencing in November 1986. In the court proceedings reported by The Irish Times on October 22, 2002, Ó Murchú stated that his American criminal custody ended in 1992, followed by rearrest and detention until deportation in 1994. The release is recorded at year precision and refers to the criminal term only. The later detention is a separate period whose precise endpoints remain undocumented; no continuous custody total is inferred.
Case
FCI Oakdale
