Updated / Thursday, 6 May 2021
16:10
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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Micheal Martin has agreed to meet DUP leader Arlene Foster about allegations of Irish state collusion with republican terrorist organisations and both the meeting and the outcome will be awaited with keen interest.
Down through the years, there have been many calls for a full public inquiry into Irish state collusion with republican terror gangs.
However, the only inquiry carried out in the Republic has been the Smithwick inquiry, which looked into the IRA murders of RUC officers Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan.
They were killed by the Provisional IRA near the border in 1989 as they returned from a meeting in Dundalk Garda station.