Joe McCann (2 November 1947 – 15 April 1972) was an Irish Republican Army and later Official Irish Republican Army volunteer from Belfast. He was active in politics from the early 1960s and participated, as an Official IRA volunteer, in the early years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He was shot aged 24 by a member of the RUC, after being confronted by RUC Special Branch and British paratroopers in 1972.
