Opinion: RTÉ s GunPlot looks back at the 1970 Arms Crisis with 2021 vision
GunPlot is a new TV Documentary and podcast series from RTÉ on the Arms Crisis of 1970. Researcher on the TV documentary, Róisín O’Dea looks at the crisis fifty years on … By Róisín O’Dea Wednesday 28 Apr 2021, 7:00 AM 1 hour ago 4,677 Views 9 Comments Róisín O’Dea
WHEN I WAS asked to be the researcher on a documentary about the Arms Crisis, I admitted to the producer-director Brian Hayes that the extent of my knowledge of the affair was whatever I had absorbed from repeats of Reeling In The Years.
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Arms Crisis bi-media production hits audience sweet spot RTÉ’s experimental marriage of podcast and TV documentary has already garnered 150,000 followers across online platforms 25th April, 2021
Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney at the Four Courts during the Arms trial: story is now a bi-media production Getty
The Arms Crisis of 1970 is the subject of RTÉ’s first bi-media production, comprising an eight-part podcast series and a one-off TV documentary. GunPlot is a collaboration between the Documentary on One team at RTÉ Radio 1 and the documentary team in the state broadcaster’s television unit.
The podcast series launched on April 12, and will be three episodes into its eight-episode run by the time the 50-minute TV programme airs.
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Anna Joyce takes a deeper dive into the latest episode of RTÉ s essential new podcast series, which revisits the Irish arms crisis of 1970 - listen to GunPlot: The Invasion above.
In 1998 Clinton had the Lewinsky affair, in 1972 Nixon had Watergate, but before these political scandals rocked the White House, Irish Minister Neil Blaney had the 1970 arms crisis.
If you re unfamiliar with Mr. Blaney then fear not for episode two of GunPlot an original podcast from RTE’s
Documentary On One will unravel his once near cult-like status and role in Ireland s biggest political calamity: the 1970 Arms Crisis.