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Anna Joyce analyses the latest episode of RTÉ s essential podcast series, GunPlot - listen above, and read more below.
For the past four weeks, RTÉ s
Documentary On One has guided listeners through the muddy waters of Ireland’s most notorious political scandal: the Arms Crisis. The theme of episode four is Muzzy and before you violently start flicking through a dictionary muzzy refers to being confused or blurred.
This week, we will hop from London to New York and finally to Hamburg in search of arms to get this gun plot off the ground. However, there is no click and collect option for a shipment of weaponry, at least not in 1969, so buckle up as things are about to get complicated….. From contradictory accounts, to a rendezvous with MI5, multiple false identities and a cameo appearance from a thriller writer, things will indeed get a tad muzzy .
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Neil Blaney, Captain James Kelly of Irish Military Intelligence G2, John Kelly and Albert Luykx The documentary titled ‘Gun Plot’ which was shown on RTE 1 last night was fascinating television. The RTE production team should be commended for this brilliant documentary on a very important and significant political and legal event which occurred 50 years ago but has not been properly addressed by the media up until now. These events in 1969 and 1970 shaped politics in Ireland forever and also had a huge impact on how the troubles in Northern Ireland unfolded after 1970.
What was very compelling was the fact that the documentary included the actual tape recordings of the second trial. This was the first time that an Irish court hearing was tape recorded. It was the judge, Mr. Justice Henchy, who ordered the hearings to be recorded. It is important to remember that the actual transcripts of the trial have been lost. The fact that the transcripts of the most important criminal tr