THE funeral will be held next week of a west Belfast republican convicted over one of the most notorious killings of the Troubles.
Alex Murphy, who was believed to be in his early sixties, died on Thursday at his home on the Falls Road.
At the age of 15, Murphy was among the youngest republican internees in Long Kesh prison in the early 1970s.
He was one of two men who received life sentences over the IRA murder of two British army corporals after they drove into the path of a republican funeral.
David Howes (23) and Derek Wood (24) were caught up in the funeral for Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh, one of three people murdered days earlier in an attack on Milltown Cemetery by loyalist Michael Stone.
Amid heightened tensions, mourners said they initially believed they were again under attack from loyalists when the plain-clothed corporals drove into the funeral cortege.
The soldiers were dragged from their car and brought to Casement Park where they were stripped and beaten, before being taken to wasteground and shot.
Television crews and an army observation helicopter captured the attack on film, making their deaths among the most harrowing of the Troubles.
Among the most striking and poignant images of the conflict was Fr Alec Reid kneeling beside one of the corporals giving him the last rites.
Murphy received a life sentence, but was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement having served about 10 years in prison.
His remains will leave his home on Monday at 11.45am and will stop at a memorial garden before proceeding to St Peter's Cathedral for Requiem Mass at 12.30pm, and then to Roselawn Crematorium.
He is survived by his children Sean, Mairghread, Piaras and Conall.
