Minister for Transport Albert Reynolds negotiating over the phone with the hijacker of an Aer Lingus plane who demanded the Vatican release the third secret of Fatima (1981)
Minister for Transport Albert Reynolds negotiating over the phone with the hijacker of an Aer Lingus plane who demanded the Vatican release the third secret of Fatima (1981)
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The third secret wasn’t worth the hype.
[Classic](https://youtu.be/1zKGZuKqG0k)
Could pass for a member of the Gambino crime family in that suit.
Good man Al
Mental that he’s smoking a cigarette.
Might as well have a half drunk pint there as well.
I love the piece they have in reeling in the years in relation to this, where the journalists are asking Albert about the third secret.
And Sam Smyth (journalist) prompts him with the answer – it’s a religious secret.
Ok ok.
Its up, down, left, right, square, square, circle, triangle.
You’re a maverick Reynolds, but by god you get results.
” Listen buddy, I have a van full of carpet outside, and it won’t sell itself , quit feckin’ around and surrender, “
the fatima children were regarded as liars by their own families, how do people buy into this?
That was gas!
Ireland’s version of a terrorist 😱😂
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue”
Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit smoking 🚬
Mortifying.
Im gonna hijack a plane and demand to see santas nice and naughty list.
Wow I don’t remember this at all, I guess I was only 5 but still I don’t even remember people mentioning it ever. That’s actually a really interesting piece of Irish history
It’s no wonder we got Father Ted a little more than a decade later.
This honestly looks like something straight out of r/fakehistoryporn