Easy to spot a fighter like Brendan, every word is thoughtful & measured. No bull only facts & no boasting of ''look at me''. A man that would have made a success of any role he adopted but the war was brought to him & he responded willingly. Great interview!

@seanohare5488

3 ай бұрын

I agree

@user-in7hz1nu8l

3 ай бұрын

I've grown up in the Irish community in England and I was taught to ask no questions and hear no lies

@alcoyne3333333333333

3 ай бұрын

Well said 👏

@markyinbelfastxx9088

3 ай бұрын

Did he run away after shooting???

@BILLYRFCNO1

3 ай бұрын

@@markyinbelfastxx9088 No he did not run away he made his getaway big big difference HEN

And changed nothing. East Tyrone didn’t fit with the Sinn Fein leadership that why they were sacrificed at Loughgall. They were defeated from within.

@patkearney9320

14 күн бұрын

@@tonys843 I’ve heard this a few times and it’s like a stone in my shoe it always troubles me, I thank you sincerely for putting this to bed once and for all.☘️

All for nothing, the country has gone to hell now. Tragic.

@corky3585

3 ай бұрын

It's not over yet my friend.

@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910

3 ай бұрын

​@@corky3585Beagnach tagtha mo chara! Nuair a labhraíonn tú Gaeilge, níl aon rud fágtha ach le bheith fíor! 💚🇮🇪🍻

@marianlynch4829

2 ай бұрын

The Shinners are all... Brits out Africa and Middle East in...👎

@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910

2 ай бұрын

@@marianlynch4829 Cé dó a vótálann tú ansin, a Thoraí ar ndóigh! Níl a fhios agat cad é atá le tógáil sa tuaisceart ar chor ar bith!!!!

@marianlynch4829

2 ай бұрын

​@@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910 If I lived in the Republic..I would vote for a real patriotic party ..eg Irish Freedom party or the Irish Nationalist Party.

Had the pleasure of briefly speaking with Brendan one night at a book launch in Monaghan (not his). Lovely man to speak too, ordinary man in extraordinary times. No mater what side of a divide someone comes from, people like Brendan’s voices need heard, in order to stop the perception that these men where terrorists etc. Like many young men/women, he was an ordinary man with his whole life in front of him, he could have led a nice quiet life but circumstances thrust him into a different world, no mater how tough it may be! I would rather hear honest factual accounts than revisionist bullshit, if we dont hear these peoples stories , they will be buried and rewritten by others with their own political agenda and narratives.

@seanohare5488

3 ай бұрын

I agree

@seanohare5488

3 ай бұрын

I agree

@finbarreburn5112

3 ай бұрын

'The Loughgall Massacre spelt the demise of The IRA', #Infiltrated 😥 😠

@ProfileP246

3 ай бұрын

He’s the definition of a terrorist 🤣

Great clip looking forward to the full interview 👌

Im curious how he would look at the current situation in ireland now

Thank you for your service....

The interviewer is starting to sound more like a police detective than a show host with so many incriminating questions

@jameslarkin8494

3 ай бұрын

I'm sure Brendan has the cut of him in any case..

New sub looking forward to catching up on Ur work great interview this man pain is still felt by many even today

I wonder what he is thinking of our country today?

God bless you Brendan

I remember reading of a guy who got kneecapped for pocketing a tenner during a republican pub collection. The movement couldn't give you community service because that's what you were surposed to be doing... Serving the community...

@cannibalholocaust3015

3 ай бұрын

This stuff came back to bite, many informers turned to settle old scores

@anthonydonlan3140

3 ай бұрын

@@cannibalholocaust3015 How's that again?

@greatest7391

3 ай бұрын

What a stupid thing to do...

@anthonydonlan3140

3 ай бұрын

@@greatest7391 I think that he thought that too. They never caught me. But I was collecting for poppy Day.

@SDMcC1916

2 ай бұрын

​@@anthonydonlan3140informants was a big issue for the movement, they where considered traitors and shot same as any other militancy really

Brilliant Interview love it great to watch

Fascinating insights into the realities of the war in the north told in matter of fact way. There is an integrity about this man. Not sure if the interview went into infilteration of the IRA and the trust required within units. Would be interesting if it did.

A true Irishman ,,God bless you Brendan...you had to fight the occupation.

@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910

2 ай бұрын

An laoch!💚☘🇮🇪🙂👍

Well said

Kevin M just did it @ did not listen to those who were holding the movement back.Kevin had a rutless streak @ with J B on side who was going to stop them.Tyrone @ Cork had alot in common Cost us two good men I have followed your podcast .What i like is you let people talk.@ you are exposing history before we lose them😊

🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 When England formed an empire and invaded people's countries they stole whatever they wanted to, not only did England do that it was more than happy to bring the coloured people back on slave ships to England, and sold them in the market place in England like cattle, I can confirm there was plenty of money being raised in England for the Irish Republic army for a free and independent Ireland, 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

@Timberdoodle197

2 ай бұрын

You have a very one sided view of history if it wasn't for the British empire colonising the world people would still be living in mud huts throwing excrement at each other although many IRA supporters and members still do that.

Never should have divided the country in 1921!

Brendan Hughes, great fighting name it seems

@slowmo9642

3 ай бұрын

Is this Bik?

@timoconnor7423

2 ай бұрын

No​@@slowmo9642

@timoconnor7423

2 ай бұрын

I was in P Laoise with Btendan in 74 .I was actually arrested 50 yrs ago to day..He @ Kevin J B .@ about 150 others most gone to their reward since.were there then that was before 19 including Brendan went A W L.

@roberthughes3904

2 ай бұрын

McFarlane

@slowmo9642

2 ай бұрын

@roberthughes3904 thanks. Read ten men dead but it was a while back.

A lot of Tyrones in Ireland now

top man.....met him 3 weeks ago..a real republican unlike the chanchers who disown him now

Interesting interview and insight into PIRA -however-they shot a lot of folk in the back as they went about their work

@peterallison-ex4yy

3 ай бұрын

The police and army were very good at that too and their loyalist counterparts. You would expect alot of this using guerrilla tactics though.

@ardri31

3 ай бұрын

War is ugly, in fact nothing more so

@cbhondaya3613

2 ай бұрын

That was the MO of british army in Ireland. No honour

To many touts had no choice but to surrender

@bpd1111

21 күн бұрын

Sf largest party and 9n it's way to a united ireland. Only ones to surrender were unionists. Absolutely no back bone now they xant hide behind the brits

So many Brit tears in the comments so sweet😢😂

You could get shot for stealing money ....now that was a severe sanction ...who approved of that ?

What's the point of fighting Britain, and then surrender sovereignty to the dictators in the EU . .

@Conorguill

3 ай бұрын

Ireland didn't 'surrender' sovereignty to the EU but rather pooled sovereignty and have been pretty good at working with the rest of Europe for our mutual benefit.

@stvincents2007

3 ай бұрын

Yep and look at the state of the country now

@evolassunglasses4673

3 ай бұрын

​​@@Conorguill your soon be African now.

@stephenkelly2067

2 ай бұрын

​@@Conorguillnonsense eu dictates every breath Ireland takes

@stephenkelly2067

2 ай бұрын

​@@stvincents2007exactly answerable to Germany

Great interview

Most of them lined their own pockets . Must have been a horrible experience for bank staff not knowing if they were going to be shot dead

@jamesgilhooly8922

3 ай бұрын

True

@Rebel1916

3 ай бұрын

Believe what bullshit you like, Brenden is a gentleman, people like you turn my stomach,..

@Rebel1916

3 ай бұрын

Believe whatever bullshit you ant, let me tell you Brenden is a gentleman, and people like you turn my stomach....

@ardri31

3 ай бұрын

No they didn't

@brendanmallon1479

2 ай бұрын

No one lined there own pockets you got whacked if caught that's the truth

It was all about money and control of ordinary people.

Moles were the biggest problem

@lewismichael7438

2 ай бұрын

Was it touts you were meaning ?

He obviously didn't lead the attack on Loughgall RUC station. I wonder why?

@Heresy1987

Ай бұрын

What are you even talking about? He wasnt even Tyrone Brigade OC at the time. Paddy had taken over as OC in '85 after Peter Sherry got pinched by the pigs in Scotland.

Never went toe to toe , hiding at the end of wires etc or firing from over the border.

@michaelmurphy1460

3 ай бұрын

Total bullshit , look up drumavakill ambush, derryane ambush , battle of newery road , just to name a few. Ye were good at hiding behind things yourselves. Brits had immunity from prosecution, PIRA hadn’t. Let’s read our history and get the facts straight

@fearnasionainne

2 ай бұрын

Jonathan plenty of occassions of toe to toe..plenty of so called british army stories of sneaky ambushes and a few well know high profile massacre's carried out by them.

@dublinhoop1

2 ай бұрын

You expect a group of guerrilla revolutionaries to go “toe to toe” with a billion pound war machine? How stupid are you?

@tonemc6047

2 ай бұрын

You obviously have no knowledge of guerilla warfare.

@tonymc8268

Ай бұрын

Dropping bombs from aircraft, firing missiles from ships is more cowardly .

Wonder what these guys make of the current invasion . Have they trained replacements ? Because if they ever needed an Army , they need one now. 🇨🇮

A man with a learning age of a child was sent to pick up weapons, so adult woth weapon was cut to bits. Obviously it wasn't the IRA that was responsible.

P.I.R.A were a brutal,merciless organisation. That made misery for many people. Not lets glorify these terrible times suffered by everyone in troubles on both sides. And lets hope it stays in the past

@seanohare5488

3 ай бұрын

Let's get British government and globalist EU out of Ireland then

@microwavehead1517

3 ай бұрын

One could say exactly the same with regards to the British army. Nobody is trying to glorify anything. We listen & learn.

@user-wt8ee3st6y

3 ай бұрын

Undoubtedly it was terrible for you and your british paymasters, or maybe you are the paymasters.

@clario2178

3 ай бұрын

Self defence is no offence ☘️

@antonralph6947

3 ай бұрын

Tiocfaidh àr là

100 % !!!🤔

Alot of touts in East Tyrone

@MrCOUNTYCORK

2 ай бұрын

It was because everything went through Belfast, that was the biggest problem in East Tyrone

All that fighting for freedom and then let the EU and immigrants take over 😢 all a waste

@wilfredwilde9559

3 ай бұрын

Well said .It doesn’t feel like Ireland anymore.

@franciskeogh5027

3 ай бұрын

Slowly changing you can feel it out there

@user-wt8ee3st6y

3 ай бұрын

All the lives wasted over the years, i feel for brendan hughes he deserved better than to leave this earth having been betrayed by people he trusted, adams, kelly, mcguiness all of them traitors, who knows, its looking like they may have been working for the british all along, remember it was a training ground for control of our country and total control of theirs, so it was in the brits intrest to keep it going, its also a disgrace that adams was allowed to attend brendan hughes funeral, when he expressly requested that he didn't want him there, even in death he was betrayed.

@boscogilleece8339

3 ай бұрын

Agree Ireland is finish pity so many good men and woman in all honesty died for nothing I wonder if they could have seen the year 2024 and the Ireland we live in before they went out on operation never to return I think they would have thrown away the guns and went home to they families

@user-wt8ee3st6y

3 ай бұрын

@user-ek2ng7qb6c dumb observation, the irish people held a different view to that of their goverment, as they do now, maybe you should look at your own situation before criticising the irish people, the english have been conned about immigration for decades, to such an extent in fact that these immigrants have the whip hand and they continue to take control, our people sre at least trying to change things.

That's a disgrace 😤

All these great men later sold out by Sinn Fein

That man should take a leaf out of Gerry Adams's stance I was never in the IRA.

@PatTigue

3 ай бұрын

I'd rather be in Ra than vote for smirky Kenny the failed teacher pro Brit

Rrspect to you my friend........

Wow what a hardman NOT !!!!

TIOCFAIDH AR LA 32CSM ERIN GO BRAGH 🇮🇪

@olijames7321

17 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤡

Ask him how many women & kids he killed.

@hughzapretti-boyden9187

3 ай бұрын

Casualties of war against an army of occupation, how many women & children were killed during the colonisation & forming of the British Empire? One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Nelson Mandela ring a bell???

@markyinbelfastxx9088

3 ай бұрын

​@hughzapretti-boyden9187 any wonder your community is fecked up Is this the mindset of the average provo supporter? Crazy

@michaelmurphy1460

3 ай бұрын

Who will we ask how many innocent women and children the British army murdered? You ?

@ardri31

3 ай бұрын

I don't think you would like the answer as it's probably zero

looks like you were ambushed.

@Bptl1234

3 ай бұрын

Looks like you were bucked

@Sh311Sh0ck3d

3 ай бұрын

@@Bptl1234 How do you keep an idiot in suspence? I will get back to you later.

@dickdiver9614

3 ай бұрын

​@Sh311Sh0ck3d For starters you learn how to spell "suspense", you knob 😂

@Ard-mhacha-abu

3 ай бұрын

@@Sh311Sh0ck3d*suspense

@marianlynch4829

2 ай бұрын

Looks mors like you were betrayed!

That's the enemy

🙏❤️🇮🇪

Didnt have the balls to wear a uniform and face us black watch c company 1980

@thegoodlistenerpodcast

2 ай бұрын

Just out of interest.. what “uniform” should he have put on ??

@Silentpeeinurine

Ай бұрын

Do the SAS wear uniforms when carrying-out assassinations?

@jamesbutler5273

Ай бұрын

@Silentpeeinurine tit for tat I put a double red hackle on my tos just to make sure they knew I was black watch or the slippers they called us

@nicholasmolloy7343

Ай бұрын

​@@jamesbutler5273 ohh ur hard

@hugmc

Ай бұрын

Black watch were to bizzy robing pubs in the middle off the night or beating up innocent teenagers 🇮🇪

Cowardice

This man is worse than the kray brothers, Why is this man not jail, what does he think about what he put all these people through. God bless Engl😂🎉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 was

@hugmc

Ай бұрын

Why was English soldiers never put in jail for their crimes?

glorifying terror??

@osamaobama

2 ай бұрын

Based on

@brianbadonde8700

2 ай бұрын

they were an oppressed terrorized population themselves for centuries in fact in their own homeland and they finally had enough and did a little terrorizing themselves

Man was a criminal and a terrorist. The Security Forces wiped out most of their so-called best operators in East Tyrone as they were riddled with informers, maybe he was one as well. Full of his own importance and should have been arrested for his admissions.

Commo thieves

@Silentpeeinurine

Ай бұрын

Takes one to know one.

Gods waiting at the pearly gates to judge you for your sins,all awaiting you.

Why is this man not arrested

@99999999999999998674

18 күн бұрын

He probably was and got out with the signing of the goodfriday agreement.

Jerry Adam’s betrayed them all for political purposes

@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910

2 ай бұрын

Who oh you mean Gerry?!

@williambeck1574

Ай бұрын

​@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910 He can't help being thick,he's a Brit !,probably smoking too much spice !