The Irish government was feeding information regarding the British to the IRA during the 60’s & 70’s?
**shocked pikachu face**
There’s a lovely irony in a website with the tagline “A specialized intelligence website written by experts” calling Haughey a former head of state.
Head of Government, surely. Haughey had enough delusions of grandure without us conferring the presidency on him!
Interesting all the same.
Did we not know this already? Wasn’t Haughey connected to IRA gun running already?
Betcha my life it’s Enda Kenny.
> In one instance, Haughey allegedly reached out to the IRA for assurances that they would not harm famous English artists who were living in Ireland at the time.
Quite the smoking gun.
There’s a certain persuasion who are inordinately keen to make out that there was equivalent collusion between the Irish state and the IRA as has been demonstrated to have gone on between the Brits and loyalists. Often spooky types themselves, for obvious reasons.
But the evidence just isn’t there to found, in reality the Irish state was if anything more hostile to republicans than the Brits were.
And even suspending disbelief for a second and taking Smithwick and this kind of stuff at their absolute height, there’s no equivalence to a network of paramilitary death squads being directed and armed by the state.
Gerry: Well well well, how the turntables.
Wonder how this affects the FF voters who won’t vote SF cause of the history with the ra.
I’d highly recommend the podcast series Gunplot to anyone who hasn’t listened. RTÉ produced it to accompany their TV doc by the same name, although the podcast goes into much more depth.
The level of personal collusion in the late 60s/early 70s was amazing when you compare it to the projected perception of the Irish states role. Haughty and Blaney were meeting the IRA regularly in the Shelbourne and Department of Ag. The question is how far they were willing to push it. The answer was the arms crisis.
Important caveats – the cabinet discussed what they’d do in an Armageddon situation and had drawn up plans for an invasion of the North but it wasn’t involving the IRA, it was to be the defence forces. The IRA element was Haughty and Blaney going on a personal crusade independent of government. Finally this was while he was Taoiseach which the article title implies.
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Sure that lad would sell himself to anyone
The Irish government was feeding information regarding the British to the IRA during the 60’s & 70’s?
**shocked pikachu face**
There’s a lovely irony in a website with the tagline “A specialized intelligence website written by experts” calling Haughey a former head of state.
Head of Government, surely. Haughey had enough delusions of grandure without us conferring the presidency on him!
Interesting all the same.
Did we not know this already? Wasn’t Haughey connected to IRA gun running already?
Betcha my life it’s Enda Kenny.
> In one instance, Haughey allegedly reached out to the IRA for assurances that they would not harm famous English artists who were living in Ireland at the time.
Quite the smoking gun.
There’s a certain persuasion who are inordinately keen to make out that there was equivalent collusion between the Irish state and the IRA as has been demonstrated to have gone on between the Brits and loyalists. Often spooky types themselves, for obvious reasons.
But the evidence just isn’t there to found, in reality the Irish state was if anything more hostile to republicans than the Brits were.
And even suspending disbelief for a second and taking Smithwick and this kind of stuff at their absolute height, there’s no equivalence to a network of paramilitary death squads being directed and armed by the state.
Gerry: Well well well, how the turntables.
Wonder how this affects the FF voters who won’t vote SF cause of the history with the ra.
I’d highly recommend the podcast series Gunplot to anyone who hasn’t listened. RTÉ produced it to accompany their TV doc by the same name, although the podcast goes into much more depth.
The level of personal collusion in the late 60s/early 70s was amazing when you compare it to the projected perception of the Irish states role. Haughty and Blaney were meeting the IRA regularly in the Shelbourne and Department of Ag. The question is how far they were willing to push it. The answer was the arms crisis.
Important caveats – the cabinet discussed what they’d do in an Armageddon situation and had drawn up plans for an invasion of the North but it wasn’t involving the IRA, it was to be the defence forces. The IRA element was Haughty and Blaney going on a personal crusade independent of government. Finally this was while he was Taoiseach which the article title implies.