Captain Robert Nairac murder by the IRA

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  • Опубликовано: 27 дек 2021
  • Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC (31 August 1948 - 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company[1][2] who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer.

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  • @darrinmcneill534
    @darrinmcneill534 24 дня назад +13

    I can’t understand why he thought he could pass off as a Ulster man pure madness

    • @joeneil5485
      @joeneil5485 23 дня назад +4

      the crowds in those pubs know a stranger immediately basically, right...? catholics from nearby only...?

    • @anthonydonlan3140
      @anthonydonlan3140 22 дня назад +4

      He thought he was Lawrence of Arabia.. He was playing out his fantasy...

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 22 дня назад +3

      I walked into a south armagh pub for water for my failed radiator....it was like American werewolf in london movie.....silence, they didnt know me and im from a 15 mile radius....He would never have managed it because the dialects are different over short ranges. I.E. Belfast sounds nothing like crossmaglen, and Newry sounds different to both....and we arent that far apart, he didnt really understand that. Plus he sang the wrong song...

    • @joeneil5485
      @joeneil5485 22 дня назад

      @@anthonydonlan3140 that's the exact comparison I was thinking of-- TE Lawrence... I wonder if he was a poof too looking for a bit of bum-fun...

    • @joeneil5485
      @joeneil5485 22 дня назад

      @@seanheader9279 he should've sung something by Thin Lizzy...

  • @MyBrothersKeeperMBK-pc1kk
    @MyBrothersKeeperMBK-pc1kk Месяц назад +29

    Ambushing individuals with a camera crew asking extremely sensitive questions, what a ridiculous method of "investigative journalism"

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 Месяц назад +3

      It's called gutter journalism

    • @Kaiserbill99
      @Kaiserbill99 Месяц назад +3

      You mean ambushing terrorists or terrorist collaborators.

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 28 дней назад +1

      @@Kaiserbill99 they should have went to the pentagon or Whitehall then

    • @Kaiserbill99
      @Kaiserbill99 28 дней назад

      @@jackietreehorn5561 Don't think that really addresses the point does it.

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 25 дней назад

      @@Kaiserbill99 precisely!

  • @francenjensen608
    @francenjensen608 28 дней назад +7

    Nairac was just a murderer.

  • @brukillaz7886
    @brukillaz7886 6 месяцев назад +30

    Don't ever take your enemy's for a fool

  • @alanbbrady8196
    @alanbbrady8196 29 дней назад +13

    I spoke to a lad in Swindon who served with Nairac.
    He said without hesitation "Nairac was an idiot who risked the lives of his colleagues for his own agenda, nobody in the regiment respected his irrational actions. He was a glory hunter, a snob and generally speaking a srlfish arse#ole."

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 27 дней назад +2

      I have read more than I can remember about Nairac and even as a University student e was an oddball. I pretty well agree with what you say about him, but there is one thing that I keep coming back to regarding what ever is written, or spoken about him and that is, Why was he allowed to continue with his maverick antics without ever being pulled into line? Even one of his own brother officers went to see the senior officer in charge and recommend that he be taken out of Northern Ireland because of the things he was doing and this guy was basically ignored. It always makes me wonder. The guy was behaving like he was in some sort of James Bond fantasy world and people were happy to just let him carry on for whatever reason. Sheer lunacy which ended in the inevitable.

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 26 дней назад +2

      @@josephlennon8475 People like the ones you mention certainly do think differently to most but in the case of Nairac, his actions were nothing short of completely irresponsible, you could put them in a Hollywood film script. It was almost as if he had suicidal tendencies. I have spent over 20 years in Northern Ireland, mostly in Belfast as well as other Areas and I can say with 💯% Certainty, nobody would have got away with a bluff like that in an area such as South Armagh, nobody.

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 26 дней назад +1

      he had balls though and this comes from a resident of south Amagh.....although he shouldnt have wore a cowboy hat out on patrol sometimes....he did get noticed

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 26 дней назад +2

      also when he was in belfast the kids for some reason liked him

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 25 дней назад +1

      your right, he would wear a cowboy hat on patrol.....dig deeper and youll find that true

  • @kevinmccarthy4794
    @kevinmccarthy4794 22 дня назад +5

    It was a war. War is ugly. We now have peace.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 21 день назад

      I have to agree with also full independence for the Ireland of Ireland

  • @gregprice103
    @gregprice103 28 дней назад +7

    if someone uninvited killed a member of your family and took over a room in your house wouldn't you want them out ? would it make you a terrosist for using force on them ?

  • @Pjmc78
    @Pjmc78 23 дня назад +4

    How many irish did her murder before he met his makers

  • @darrenfarrell-bn2cb
    @darrenfarrell-bn2cb 6 месяцев назад +36

    He Was Boloxing around , With His Enemy , If You Think The Irish are Stupid , Believe me You are Wrong.

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 Месяц назад +2

      Well you say that?

    • @NullbYte-gk5jq
      @NullbYte-gk5jq Месяц назад

      ​What you say rings true, Captain Nairac had no SIS covert ops tradecraft training, he operated out of the SOPs and got caught. He was a brave man who should have been supervised better by his superiors.
      RIP all those who died in The Troubles, on both sides.​@@patkearney9320

    • @Buckblacket
      @Buckblacket Месяц назад +1

      @@patkearney9320 He would have gotten away and killed some of his would-be captors had the pistol not misfired!

  • @ogrebattle22763
    @ogrebattle22763 Год назад +10

    Only those who were there that night knew what happened.... I think it was just crazy what he did.... there is no body to recover he's been long gone...

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 26 дней назад +1

      He sung an official IRA song in a Provo bar and raised eyebrows, you don't do that.(everyone was singing republican songs but not official IRA songs) but he didn't know the ideology of the area,. When your from no Ireland you know when and what to say and when not, he didn't. resident of South Armagh...

  • @MST785
    @MST785 Год назад +8

    I always thought this guy had a nervous breakdown that night, triggered by so many tours of duty. None of his last actions make any sense.

    • @biddyearly9262
      @biddyearly9262 9 месяцев назад

      He was involved with the uvf he was a terrorist.

    • @Stargreened
      @Stargreened 25 дней назад

      Well I don’t think he had a nervous breakdown because it was him who invented the car bombing in the troubles. He along with UDA members bombed the Irish republic known as the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
      Then he was responsible for the brutal murder of the Miami Showband. He was the one who stopped the band members that night after setting up a fake checkpoint.
      The plan was to plant a bomb in the back of the van of the band members who were both made up of catholic and Protestant.
      When the bomb went off at the “checkpoint” he shot the Miami showband with “dum dum” bulletts.
      The guy was a psychopath.

    • @MST785
      @MST785 24 дня назад +1

      @@Stargreened Things are never so clear cut. People have researched Nairac and it's well documented that he was in Scotland at the time of the Miami Showband bomb. As for him 'inventing' the car bombing in the south, I really doubt it as neither he nor the Loyalist paramilitaries had the technical knowledge to make a timed detonator. I think there was wider collusion between the British Intel and Military and Loyalist paramilitaries concerning that.

  • @biddyearly9262
    @biddyearly9262 10 месяцев назад +38

    He was involved in the Miami showband massacre.

    • @yewest3105
      @yewest3105 5 месяцев назад +6

      Bullshit

    • @gerryclarke9795
      @gerryclarke9795 Месяц назад +8

      @@yewest3105 Yes he was!

    • @undercoverbrother67
      @undercoverbrother67 Месяц назад +2

      The true orchestrator of the Kingsmill massacre. The lone survivor said that the masked leader had a "crisp English accent".

    • @jamesmain8395
      @jamesmain8395 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@undercoverbrother67that was the showband capper

    • @user-uk3xc3vv1x
      @user-uk3xc3vv1x Месяц назад +1

      A clipped English accent, as believable as it is, there's no evidence apart from that statement....the area was crawling with SAS at the time, disgruntled ex English army, could have been any member of the British security forces

  • @francenjensen608
    @francenjensen608 2 месяца назад +16

    I heard Nairac was one of principal organisers of the Miami Showband massacre. A survivor of the massacre revealed this in an interview on RTE last year. He... .sSo is in the processes of writing a book about it So much for the noble soldier image.

    • @PeterNgola
      @PeterNgola 2 месяца назад +3

      I call bullshit

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@PeterNgolanairaic was found in possession of uda regalia so he was definitely up to no good

    • @paulritchie5868
      @paulritchie5868 Месяц назад +1

      What a load of 💩

    • @francenjensen608
      @francenjensen608 Месяц назад +4

      Nairac was identified by one of the survivors of the Miami Showband massacre. Book to come out soon

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 28 дней назад +2

      If it wasn't him was someone high up in the British army.... survivors heard an English soldier giving the proxy assassins directives

  • @norbertholstein2604
    @norbertholstein2604 8 месяцев назад +33

    He participated in the murders of the Miami Showband, he deserves no sympathy.

    • @Felix-rising
      @Felix-rising 6 месяцев назад +3

      Proof ?

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 6 месяцев назад +10

      2 eye witnesses that were there

    • @Felix-rising
      @Felix-rising 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@jackietreehorn5561 ll who ?

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 6 месяцев назад +12

      @@Felix-rising Steven Travers and des lee

    • @Felix-rising
      @Felix-rising 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@jackietreehorn5561 so two people that never met him ?

  • @davekeating.
    @davekeating. Месяц назад +2

    What did he expect, murdering guinness and irish songs?!

  • @smurfu2
    @smurfu2 29 дней назад +3

    No fecking volume. What's the point in posting this?

  • @colmocinnseala88
    @colmocinnseala88 22 дня назад +3

    I wonder what Nairacs mission was before he was detected?

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 2 дня назад

      he never had one, they knew he was an idiot risk taker so they let him get on with his own little mission....spying where and when! the army had nothing to loose and all to gain if his efforts where fruitful....he was expendable

  • @seanheader9279
    @seanheader9279 26 дней назад +5

    I live local and don't believe the IRA would put Nairac through a meat grinder, they don't do that. However its a big forest to find one in. From what i hear Nairac sang a sticky song (offical IRA SONG) in the three steps pub and thats a no no. Thats when suspicions where raised....You don't sing a sticky song in the heartland of south Armagh IRA....The provos dont like offical sticky IRA. period.(they use to operate together but they broke of from each other) Nairac with little knowledge of the ideology of that area made the fatal mistake of thinking their ballads and songs related to all republican.....South Armagh resident.... ...And i hope one day they will give up his whereabouts.....

    • @joeneil5485
      @joeneil5485 23 дня назад +1

      what does 'sticky' mean...?

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 22 дня назад

      @@joeneil5485 Its a slang term giving to the offical IRA when they broke of from their comrades who became the Provisional IRA...On Easter Sunday when both commemorate their dead the Stickys wear a sticky Easter lily while the provos have a pin through theirs.

    • @joeneil5485
      @joeneil5485 22 дня назад

      @@seanheader9279 the flower is stuck on with glue or something...?

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 22 дня назад

      @@joeneil5485 what you on about?
      these are paper lilys

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 22 дня назад +1

      paper prints that resemble the lily

  • @seanspillane8231
    @seanspillane8231 24 дня назад +3

    I think the term is called summary justice.

  • @ryanmclaren850
    @ryanmclaren850 19 дней назад

    brilliant documentary.

  • @jameslarkin8494
    @jameslarkin8494 Год назад +21

    Nairac knew everything he was doing in he North,he went to dromintee playing the super-spy,he got his just desserts. He was the enemy.

    • @keithalmquest8695
      @keithalmquest8695 7 месяцев назад +2

      Bollocks

    • @margaretmcgarvey2645
      @margaretmcgarvey2645 Месяц назад

      why do the arrogant english think the world,is born with half a brain they thought this of the zulu warriors easy pickings with branches for ammunition.. ..and still havnt learned.. everyone must submit thats why they are beneath the waves

    • @marktill1197
      @marktill1197 29 дней назад

      Wow listen to you , the big man behind his keyboard

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 7 дней назад +1

      HOW RIGHT YOU ARE

  • @James-th7wb
    @James-th7wb 2 года назад +20

    The West Brit narrator is loathsome

  • @raygreen5926
    @raygreen5926 2 года назад +5

    Dulce et decorum est pro patri mori. But Robert Nairac will always be a enigma living through a mystery. A patriot or an adventurer with a death-wish.

  • @KingsleyGallagher
    @KingsleyGallagher Месяц назад +4

    Harry's game

    • @brandonshaw2120
      @brandonshaw2120 29 дней назад

      Yes. Very interesting. Also, that other one with the fella from Minder.

    • @sports872
      @sports872 29 дней назад

      What one from Minder? ​@@brandonshaw2120

  • @jonnc.5364
    @jonnc.5364 Месяц назад +27

    Britain needs to leave Northern Ireland already.

    • @douglastaggart9360
      @douglastaggart9360 Месяц назад +3

      Why it's just as British as England

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 Месяц назад

      We left years ago soldier.

    • @marv2396
      @marv2396 Месяц назад

      @@CARLIN4737 Stay at home boy. Learn your lesson and you wont be hurt. Brighton poofters

    • @corkboy4523
      @corkboy4523 Месяц назад +1

      @@douglastaggart9360except it’s not really😁

    • @Raymondspongey
      @Raymondspongey Месяц назад +2

      @@douglastaggart9360 I would think that If you said that in a pub on The Falls Road within a few minutes, I guarantee you would soon retract saying such an inflammatory and misjudged statement. Without a doubt .

  • @apintofbeer1667
    @apintofbeer1667 22 дня назад +1

    He was a serial killer who got his just desserts

  • @Barracuda71-ln3jr
    @Barracuda71-ln3jr Месяц назад +7

    If I'm not mistaken wasn't a UVF embroidered handkerchief found among some of Nairac's belongings?

    • @Irishman0855
      @Irishman0855 Месяц назад +2

      It was indeed he was involved in the Miami showband massacre

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 22 дня назад +2

      yes i heard that

  • @seanheader9279
    @seanheader9279 22 дня назад +1

    I also heard he would go on patrol in south armagh with regular units in a cowboy hat, drawing unwanted attention for everyone else....Now i read that somewhere so i dont know if its true.

  • @patrickglennon7058
    @patrickglennon7058 25 дней назад +1

    He was a half wit, r.i.p.

  • @Barracuda71-ln3jr
    @Barracuda71-ln3jr Месяц назад +1

    This obviously didn't happen very often as far as one knows regarding British Army officers being compromised & killed by the PIRA. One would have to ask however what he was thinking going into a pub in a heavy Republican area in South Armagh in an undercover capacity ALONE with no backup, it just sounds to me like a suicidal thing to do, honestly speaking there were things during that time that you just did not do.

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 7 дней назад +1

      He answered to no one... loose cannon and they let him go and get on with it.....expendable. They knew he would take risks no one else would. I live close to that pub....the British army used him as cannon fodder....

    • @Barracuda71-ln3jr
      @Barracuda71-ln3jr 7 дней назад

      @@seanheader9279 Makes sense..

  • @dannyboy5517
    @dannyboy5517 29 дней назад +1

    Blood debts are paid in blood

  • @hedgefundshyster..3241
    @hedgefundshyster..3241 Месяц назад +20

    He was going into republican bars singing irish rebel songs ...he was sniffed out within 5 minutes ..snuffed out within 60 minutes .never to be seen again ..

    • @marv2396
      @marv2396 Месяц назад +1

      He must have been retarded thinking he could pull that off......

    • @artfasil
      @artfasil Месяц назад +2

      most likely yea, they spotted him as soon as they set eyes on him.

    • @hedgefundshyster..3241
      @hedgefundshyster..3241 Месяц назад +4

      @@artfasil exactly.. apparently he went in .. giving it large ..with his phoney Belfast accent .. getting on stage with the band . ..stood out like a sore thumb..

    • @alanleahy2047
      @alanleahy2047 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@hedgefundshyster..3241his rendition of "my old man's a Provo "..sealed his fate.

    • @hedgefundshyster..3241
      @hedgefundshyster..3241 Месяц назад

      @@alanleahy2047 ,😂

  • @heartofjesusdj
    @heartofjesusdj 7 дней назад

    His first mistake was not realizing that he didn’t even look like a White man. When you look at his profile in pictures, he had an Asian or South Sea Islander look. I don’t know why he thought he could pass as Irish.

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 Месяц назад +10

    Lord have mercy on the soul of Captain Robert Nairac and all other British soldiers, police, and undercover gangsters, all trained killers who lost their lives carrying out the Great British government instruction but what the hell was his and his dearest soldier palls doing invading and causing murder, fear, destruction and bringing great sadness, sorry to many parts of Ireland and its people

    • @geraldoloughlin8307
      @geraldoloughlin8307 Месяц назад +2

      There was nothing great about the British government. The army should never have been in Ireland. It was a political problem not a military one.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 27 дней назад

      @@geraldoloughlin8307
      Greed, madness and sheer brutality against their nearest and dearest neighboring people, The Irish people done nothing but great things for the British/English but they were blind and had almost no understanding of the irish, they wanted total control and all the lands and all the beautiful scenery of Ireland, As the very great and most blessed Phil Lynatt wrote and sang they came to claim the Emerold, without they could not leave. Irish people suffered from over 800 years of invasions, brutality, and theft, the invaders tried their very best to destroy people beliefs and their religion, It is all too similar to what is happening to the poor bombed, shot, and starved people of Gaza/Palestine. God be with and help all downtrodden and frightened people of the world, give strength and hope to the peacemakers

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 25 дней назад

      @@jamesbradshaw3389 as Phil lynot said in a song if the boys wanna fight you better let em

    • @seanheader9279
      @seanheader9279 22 дня назад

      fuck the great British government

  • @markjohn1910
    @markjohn1910 10 месяцев назад +26

    Took 9 of the cowards to overpower capt Nairac , typical of the scum

    • @biddyearly9262
      @biddyearly9262 9 месяцев назад

      You are full of shit he was half cut leaving the bar and he wasn't a big fella. You lot say this about the massacre of the two sas fellas you say they were so brave they didn't unload their handguns into the crowd but any eejit knows two handguns are not going to stop a hoard of 100 people.

    • @406estate
      @406estate 9 месяцев назад +25

      When did the British army ever fight one on one ? He only thought he was a hard man……South Armagh is where hard men are born🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

    • @stephenburns7061
      @stephenburns7061 7 месяцев назад +1

      @406estate grow up,wat does A mean in the ira,army from my experience army's put on the uniform and fight the fight face to face,call themselves a army do me favour,blowing up and killing innocent people scumbags just like hammas,in todays world,so get your facts right,

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 Месяц назад +2

      ​@@stephenburns7061violence is a reaction because greviences hasn't been addressed

    • @Didyeaye404
      @Didyeaye404 Месяц назад

      ​@406estate South armagh were riddled with Informers. If they weren't committing suicide In prison they were touting to the ruc

  • @jimmyfitzsimons3625
    @jimmyfitzsimons3625 20 дней назад

    He should not be on Irish soil jim

  • @vickigould7784
    @vickigould7784 29 дней назад

    It was a bloody war: intricate woven history. Good men with a good course; but not in the times of the troubles, sadly

  • @windjammer97
    @windjammer97 Месяц назад +8

    The soldier ignored military procedures and willingly wrote his own death sentence. Not murdered. End of story

  • @angelabushby1891
    @angelabushby1891 21 день назад

    I think I have one of the last photos taken of him

  • @ATLmodK
    @ATLmodK 29 дней назад +3

    And then there were the many killings that Nairac was responsible for.

  • @jake751
    @jake751 29 дней назад +1

    Who cares. Stay in your own lane.

  • @Freedom-hv3vm
    @Freedom-hv3vm 3 дня назад

    Murder

  • @JaneSmith-zq3nw
    @JaneSmith-zq3nw Год назад +15

    What a brave and wonderful comrade he must have been. We should take our hats off to this young man. May he live long in our history. Wherever he maybe, may he rest in peace and RISE IN GLORY

    • @biddyearly9262
      @biddyearly9262 9 месяцев назад

      He was terrorist they found a uvf handkerchief on him.

    • @christopherdoherty424
      @christopherdoherty424 9 месяцев назад

      Ha ha the RA got him fuck him

    • @stephenburns7061
      @stephenburns7061 9 месяцев назад +2

      thank you for your kind words regarding Robert,

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@stephenburns7061what's your thoughts on Stephen travers and des mcaleas eye witnesses accounts

    • @eoin79
      @eoin79 4 месяца назад +2

      Another way of looking at it is he endangered his own comrades with his stupidity.

  • @hughcumber665
    @hughcumber665 27 дней назад +1

    he's sitting next to thatcher in hell

  • @johanakermyr1437
    @johanakermyr1437 2 года назад +80

    The wee soldier should have stayed in his own home land.

    • @ProfileP246
      @ProfileP246 2 года назад +34

      He was in the UK

    • @maitiucibhleachain5139
      @maitiucibhleachain5139 Год назад +16

      @@ProfileP246 not his homeland though!

    • @SuperCod4567
      @SuperCod4567 Год назад +1

      @@maitiucibhleachain5139 ira shouldnt murder kids

    • @maitiucibhleachain5139
      @maitiucibhleachain5139 Год назад +4

      @@SuperCod4567 are you Nairac's ghost? Where'd they put you Robert?

    • @AnUndisclosedLocation
      @AnUndisclosedLocation Год назад +18

      @@ProfileP246 No, he wasn't. He was in the part of Ireland that is occupied by a foreign aggressor, of which he was a key member.

  • @keithsim171
    @keithsim171 Месяц назад +2

    What a cowardly act

  • @formalbug5716
    @formalbug5716 Год назад +6

    Lmfaoo get rekt

  • @georgebrowne5935
    @georgebrowne5935 10 месяцев назад +2

    The poor chap was used to hold the Status Quo of Colonialism.
    Russia's soldiers are doing the same thing in Crimea since 2014, and trying to Colonise the rest of Ukraine now as we know.
    When will Working Class People ever learn??

  • @johnjoyce9075
    @johnjoyce9075 Год назад +8

    Haha ha ha ha ha

    • @SuperCod4567
      @SuperCod4567 Год назад +2

      Nothing funny

    • @cocksure8430
      @cocksure8430 Год назад +2

      @@SuperCod4567 Hes only laughing because all the IRA touts were tortured and executed by the biggest IRA tout of all, its just a defense mechanism.
      Imagine having to accept the reality of your whole movement being ran and 'internally cleansed' by the Brits?
      Its got to hurt, I mean really, really hurt.

    • @biddyearly9262
      @biddyearly9262 9 месяцев назад

      @@cocksure8430 They bombed the financial quarter of London in the 90s hardly an organization doomed eh? So STFU

    • @jacquiewalton1996
      @jacquiewalton1996 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@cocksure8430 Imagine one of Margaret Thatcher's Northern Ireland minister's saying that the IRA's violence worked ...It's got to hurt, I mean really, really hurt ! ..A former Northern Ireland secretary who served under Margaret Thatcher has said the IRA's violence worked.
      Lord Jim Prior was secretary of state in 1981 at the time of the hunger strikes when 10 republicans died in prison.
      Mrs Thatcher said the men were criminals and refused to grant concessions.
      But Lord Prior told a BBC documentary that she never really understood what the problem was.
      "Violence probably does work, it may not work quickly and may not be seen to work quickly, but in the long run, one has to look back and say it did work," he told documentary maker Peter Taylor in a programme to be broadcast on Monday.

    • @gerard1965able
      @gerard1965able 29 дней назад

      @@cocksure8430 nope,your missing the reality,the split 69?was identified as an Mi5op,northern command ceased to exist militarily 76 onwards,you,ve completely missed the strategy,you cannot teach an "innbred Terdous"military theoretical warfare,a walking terdous is like his innbredd mother?Terd,💋.

  • @johnmccrea7094
    @johnmccrea7094 Месяц назад +1

    Should have stayed in his own country🇮🇪

  • @inverkenny
    @inverkenny 19 дней назад

    He was not a nice man,

  • @stephenburns7061
    @stephenburns7061 Год назад +7

    forgot to say Robert a Catholic, ira Catholic same related in faith,then to kill him saying bring you a priest to say your confessions,and lying to him and the faith you and him tread,shame on you.all

    • @strawdog9964
      @strawdog9964 10 месяцев назад

      The IRA weren't a religous order and the Republic was never about Protestant vs Catholic. The founding fathers of Irish Republicanism were mostly Presbyterian. Nairac was an enemy spy, he was captured and shot.

    • @biddyearly9262
      @biddyearly9262 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yea that was a dispicable thing to do. However the shenanigans this man involved himself in were likewise dispicable.

    • @stephenburns7061
      @stephenburns7061 9 месяцев назад

      @@biddyearly9262 you Ave your opinion and I Ave mine and I that's ok with me

    • @stephenburns7061
      @stephenburns7061 9 месяцев назад

      @@biddyearly9262 you say your pity

    • @MrTracker614
      @MrTracker614 9 месяцев назад +2

      Bob was an Oxford Boxing Blue. Believe me, Bob could handle himself and, others. One on One, you would have been in difficulties.
      Speak with Slab Murphy, he’ll know what happened to Bob’s body.

  • @garethmorgan3280
    @garethmorgan3280 Год назад +18

    Taken out by the Brave and gallant men of the Irish Republican Army 🇮🇪

    • @invisibleman4827
      @invisibleman4827 Год назад +18

      Nothing brave or gallant about them

    • @dennishbergkamp
      @dennishbergkamp Год назад

      Nothing brave or gallant about the British Army shooting unarmed men, women and children and plotting to bomb primary schools.

    • @stephenburns7061
      @stephenburns7061 9 месяцев назад +6

      surprised you can spell never mind the word BRAVE, ira brave,jez does your brain hurt?

    • @AwesomeAngryBiker
      @AwesomeAngryBiker 9 месяцев назад

      They're pathetic evil pos terrorists no better than taliban or hamas or al quaeda

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@stephenburns7061 as book by Eamon Collins sums up everyone on each side...he seen many that were brave people but also seen others the scum of the earth....goes for every one involved