Eamonn is a decent guy, likes a joke and a laugh. Ian McNeily posted some bits and peices about meeting with Magee to discuss a biography a few years back and some of the comments are classic.
Both the shooting and beating were in a way paramilitary, the shooting was an outright punishment attack and I think was claimed at the time as the work of the INLA (i think). The beating, I'm not going to go into on an open forum (sorry)
I like Magee he is a straight up guy, with him a spade is a spade, though he does tend to scare people that don't know him
