At this stage it would be easier to make a list of IRA members who were not informers.

Each side done it to their own also to trap the teenagers to join them. The whole troubles were dirty, corrupt and deceptive. Only the innocent suffered.

Both sides informed like crazy, they carved up turf together, the split the drug scene together and the split the illegal goods together. It was always about the money.

Only the tip of the iceberg .......

Thanks for sharing

Never heard of this guy before this afternoon. Ricky O'Rawe did a great podcast with Mick Clifford within the last week about his book about Scapaticci in which he said that it was his opinion that Scap was just the tip of an iceberg. The Brits know that, and so do the Provos. As Brendan Hughes said of the Belfast IRA: 'Belfast was riddled'. I can only imagine that Derry and other areas were as well. A filthy business all round.

@thetruth7386

10 ай бұрын

Brendan Hughes was convinced the internal security unit was so badly infiltrated that if he started snooping he wouldn't last a week. He stated the unit's leader, deputy leader and 3 other senior members were all working for FRU or Special Branch. Was he right? It seems like he was.

@cheapy2006

10 ай бұрын

@@thetruth7386 I reckon so. He said he wanted to question Joe Fenton about the procurement and bugging of houses for Provos, but he got nutted before Hughes could get to him. That's when Hughes got worried for himself. I think it's at the end of 'Voices from the Grave'. Up The Dark!!!

@thetruth7386

10 ай бұрын

@@cheapy2006 it is pretty obvious that the Branch in particular informed their agents that under no circumstances was Fenton to be moved south for an interrogation with Brendan Hughes. If he had been then the whole game was up. And the Branch knew it. Hughes said when he confronted Scap about killing Fenton Scap gave a cock and bull story about too much security presence in the area to move him or keep him in a safe house. So they shot him out of hand. Hughes stated he never bought that for a second. Fenton was an agent for Special Branch and it can only be guessed at in regards the damage he did. Long term damage as well. Just another pawn in the game and discarded once he was discovered. It is safe to say that even with all the infiltration and treachery nothing would have turned Brendan Hughes.

@Cloughjordan23

9 ай бұрын

Brits had 800 informants in Belfast alone.

@cushyglen4264

9 ай бұрын

The Brits ran both the Provos & the loyalists.

Class Upload.... Thanks

Castlereagh break in ( set up ) showed just how many touts were in the IRA

Bravery ,Treachery or self preservation The end game is the same

@Pivotpoet396

10 ай бұрын

Terrorism is self loathing

Touts out

Left NI in 2012 went through all the bullshit growing up, choppers Shanucks landing in the Feild by mine. Any young person I’n Northern Ireland ATM should get out quick.

@peaceformula5830

10 ай бұрын

It's so painful to have to leave your home country because it's too dangerous. Much love

@Scotia6261

9 ай бұрын

Chinook

A troubled time in our history but a line has to be drawn in the sand. Further inquiries just bleeds the system no wonder Winters wants to continue all this has made him a wealthy man something he fails to acknowledge. No one's loved ones are coming back and as difficult as that is we must move on. Society in Northern Ireland is stuck in the past. Yes I've lost friends along the way.

💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪 People must remember it was not ireland that invaded England it was England that invaded Ireland Germany invaded France in the second world war and a French resistance was formed the people of France did not want Germany in their country the people of Ireland do not want England in their country this man who has been an informer I cannot understand why he would want to do that if he does not want a free and independent ireland he should move to another country if somebody broke into your house would you not try and push them out it is no different when England invaded Ireland Ireland is one large piece of rock in the Irish see for everybody to enjoy not to put barriers across the north of the ireland dividing the ireland into two when England invaded Ireland they considered it to be normal behaviour when England invaded the Caribbean countries and brought the coloured people back to England and sold them in the market place like cattle the English considered that to be normal behaviour Ireland is a peaceful place in the world that just wants to live on it's own ireland it has no intentions of ever invading England but many believe England must leave the north of Ireland.... If England is to survive in the world in the future it needs to change its ways... For the love and freedom of Ireland 💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓,

Wat about the drug connection between the british goverment and dubllin exporting drugs

Cyril was a great lad. On the morning at R15, a proxy bomb entered the checkpoint. The instruction was to throw the tried in driver cutters and to evacuate. Cyril raised the alarm, then cut the driver out, lead him to safety basically carrying him. The count of persons from the road that exited North to a safe position was 1 down, no one at the time knew that 1 Ranger went into the checkpoint compound and exited out across the railway line. Cyril went back to find this Ranger thinking he'd not exited

@MichaelKng-fk5jk

8 ай бұрын

@John-ws7ev 2nd Bn, B Coy, Lemgo as 20Bde, time we went to NI were 8 Inf, Nwy Coy. If you were with us there were 2 Scallies with B Coy, as returned to Bn, Scallies moved to A Coy

@MichaelKng-fk5jk

8 ай бұрын

@@John_Corrigan Know Ricky mate. I was attached from 200 Sigs. Me and Daz came across with the Ops Offr & Ops SM just a little in. No one knew we were coming so went via Bn. Went to B Coy, cracking lads. That night we were Ops Multiple and I was 1st to walk in with the Pt Comd. Was 10 minutes after I reckon. Cyril was a cracking lad who really welcomed us and that night Cyril only thought of others

@MichaelKng-fk5jk

8 ай бұрын

@John-ws7ev I guess you were 1st Bn, did you join 2nd for the tour?

@bhante1345

5 ай бұрын

Learn how to write. Utter schizo jibberish.

That's not the point, if he was a a tout or not.... The Brits new it was an Idea not an organisation. ,.

@goonernumone8444

10 ай бұрын

Course it's the point- wasn't hefighting for a free North,audited Ireland, wasn't scap ( Steak knife ) wasn't he a stand up provo ? Wasn't his job to sniff out informers touts ?, only problem was he was a tout of over 15 yrs...irony

@bhante1345

5 ай бұрын

So, the funding from the states, the surplus of guns, the assassinations, the bombings campaigns were all just ideas, and not organised activities?

Regarding the two men who were kneecapped, I was under the impression that the IRA first gave a warning to individuals involved in anti-social activity, an opportunity to desist from their behaviour, before moving to the punishment phase? Let's not forget, besides their so called military campaign the IRA was acting as a police force, judiciary, and hangman in the North. And they did so with popular support. Like Hamaz today, they were voted into power in several cases.

@TheThirdFall

5 ай бұрын

There's not a really simple answer to the kneecapping question. There's definitely plenty of cases where they've told people to get out of Ireland and then shot them afterwards, but there are also examples where someone has been shot after crossing a local IRA man.

Let me tell the thick heads out there 99.95% of people in jail are informers yeah mate I gave myself up if you give yourself up you would give anyone up who is number one you sad people in jail 😂😂😂

Its called Collateral Damage, it will never change and its a shame.