StoryCast '21: EP 11/21 The Last Gun: Disarming the IRA
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Sky News
4.3 • 728 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Unbeknown to high-ranking security officials in both the British and Irish Governments, the Rev Harold Good and Father Alec Reid were to undertake a secret mission to bring about the disarmament of the IRA.
To this day, what happened before and during that covert mission, remains shrouded in mystery. But now aged 84, Reverend Harold Good, speaking exclusively to Sky News, gives a searing new insight into an act that not only involved great personal risk, but on which the future of peace depended.
CREDITS
‘The Last Gun: Disarming the IRA’ was written and produced by Rob Mulhern with David Blevins.
Special thanks to Reverend Harold Good and David Blevins
Digital by Tom Gillespie
Presented by Jayne Secker
Sound Design, Rob Mulhern
TV treatment, Johnny El-Giathi
Head of Radio, Sky News, Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Chris Scott
Press and Marketing, Alexandra Horton
Email: [email protected]
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| 0:32.7 | You're listening to episode 11 of Storycast 21. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm James Secker. |
| 0:38.8 | The 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles, claimed more than 3,500 lives and injured some 30,000 people. |
| 0:49.2 | In 2004, despite the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the IRA's refusal to disarm threatened to collapse the new power-sharing government |
| 0:58.0 | and cast Northern Ireland back to its violent past. |
| 1:01.9 | Securing a lasting peace rested in part on the shoulders of a small and unlikely group of men tasked with bringing about the IRA's disarmament. |
| 1:11.4 | For the first time, the podcast you're about to hear features new disclosures about one of the |
| 1:16.9 | most closely guarded events in the history of Northern Ireland. |
| 1:21.3 | This is The Last Gun, Disarming the IRA. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm David Blevins. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm the Senior Ireland correspondent for Sky News. |
| 1:35.3 | It was over 50 years ago, in 1969, that the troubles in Northern Ireland really began. |
| 1:43.3 | At that time, Catholics in Northern Ireland felt they weren't getting equal treatment to Protestants. |
| 1:50.0 | Most Catholics wanted Ireland, North and South, reunited. |
| 1:55.0 | The provisional I-O-Rae was formed in an attempt to end British rule in Northern Ireland. |
| 2:01.6 | Republicans called it the armed struggle. |
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