The life and crimes of Gerard ‘Hucker’ Moyna
He was a rogue Republican who was thrown out of the IRA, had a brief dalliance with the INLA and someone who lurched around other dissident groupings as an enforcer and a feared hitman known for a love of violence but who couldn’t be managed or controlled.
This week as killer and terrorist Gerard ‘Hucker’ Moyna was laid to rest in Belfast, Nicola speaks with Belfast Telegraph Crime Correspondent Allison Morris about the life and crimes of a troubles psychopath and her brief encounter with him.
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Proud to have been a friend of Huck since I was a child, I was literally with him a few hours before his accident, 90% of the things said here are true but one thing needs to be emphasised is Gérard was a Soldier of ireland and an absolute gentleman. He'll go down in history. Huck never did anything for himself he did it for the greater good, gone but never to be forgotten. I nDíl Chuimhne mo chara. TAL 🇮🇪
Lenny Murphy strangely looks like a mixture between Lou Reed and Ian Dury in that photo. The car he's posing with is the car Hucker gunned him down in.
@Spook2431NYC
2 ай бұрын
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Took a walk on wild side and got hit with a rhythm stick Murphy did😂
Lenny Murphy killed both Catholics and Protestants. He was feared as much in the Shankill Road as the Cliftonville Road.
Hostess is clueless.
Rúairí O' Bradaigh was born Roger Casement Brady...
Nicola has a great talent of obnoxiously butting in mid conversation while someone is explaining something.
Someone fed Allison a load of bull..with a few truths thrown in.
Great reporting. We as a family moved out of the lower falls Quadrant Street in 1968. Although only 2 at the time I remember a great sense of community. Thank you for this story.
A TRUE ONH
Alison did you know that mr mackel the architect who voluntarily built the new houses in Bombay street in the aftermath of the Bombay street riots has passed away this weekend , getting buried today or tomorrow I assume . He lived to 90 years of age . His son is Ciaran mackel also an architect
Hucker had a strong heart,he fought a war,and god bless him. If he was anyway connected to me,i would be as proud as punch.. In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary. Your name we will keep,were the Fenians sleep.
Veteran Republican be very careful the way you speak of the dead this man done more for the country than anyone you have had on your podcasts …… restoring justice when it was rife against catholics god bless him and god bless Ireland 🇮🇪
@franciscully5168
2 ай бұрын
If there was few more Hucker Moynas things could have been a lot different today. Rest in peace my good friend.
Met hucker on remand in crumlin road jail back in the day we became good friends when i was living in Sligo we used to meet up in bundoran often when he was living there he was a gentleman and good staunch friend and he was dammed good opperator well known for his courage ànd bravery it was good to have known him rest in peace hucker
A TRUE ONH HUCKER MOYNA HE SHOWED THAT LOYALIST LENNY THE JUNKIE MURPHY❤❤
Belfast was a bizarre city in the 1980s 🚔💀
You do the math, she for real?
Moyna was the original Natural Born Killer-he lived for it and strangely he didn't die a violent death unlike most of his peers.
@franciscully5168
2 ай бұрын
Hucker carried out his order's to the letter and if having to shoot someone so be it , he never questioned it he carried out his order's as a Republican Soldier, if that makes him a natural born killer there must be thousands out there,.
@franciscully5168
2 ай бұрын
Complete and utter nonsense.
@neilcolwell3107
28 күн бұрын
Well said.
Shame on Both of You Regarding Your Maths 🙈
Being a mass murderer can't have rested easy with him no matter how calm he portrayed himself. Plenty of demons no doubt.
@franciscully5168
2 ай бұрын
We're the soldiers of the first and second world War who killed enemy soldiers were they mass murderers, Hucker carried out the orders of the leadership of republican army at that time with great effectiveness, a very brave man , and a privilege to have know him , R.I.P. HUCKER.
@Spook2431NYC
2 ай бұрын
@@franciscully5168👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🕯🕊💚💚💚🇮🇪
Night of the long knives" was Hitler when he exterminated his original heavies, the SA.
@GJ1607.
2 ай бұрын
It was but the wiping out of an entire organisation the IPLO by the PIRA in a few hrs the people of belfast named that IRA operation after it
@Irish-1916
2 ай бұрын
The all hid in clonard monestary 🤣🤣
@johnconlon2207
2 ай бұрын
@@GJ1607. It was just that a speaker attributed it to Stalin. I wanted the correct evil bastard to get the credit.
Allison needs better mic, all her reporting is cutting in & out ...
Who's the blonde bird doing all the talking?
@Irish-1916
2 ай бұрын
Alison morris
Alison Morris….Republican mouthpiece
Never heard of him
@Irish-1916
2 ай бұрын
Not from the Springfield then gentleman he was did what needed done to protect his community
@davenic9781
2 ай бұрын
"Never heard of him"....that's generally the point of being a good operator. Some active gunmen never courted publicity or post ceasefire notoriety. Thankfully the shitty tabloid right wing media never got a hold of his name and decided to publicise him & ramp up his reputation. If you're outside the wider Republican community, why should anyone hear of a guy like this name? He was an underground political activist for a reason. That's just how i see it anyway. There's ex volunteers in South Armagh that have wiped out dozens of British soldiers over 20 years when the war was on, but outside their immediate Republican circle in the local area, no one would know who they are. Long may it stay that way. Case in point, the name of the Adjutant General of the Provos (while the war was on) has only come to light since he passed away a couple of years ago. No one before that really knew who he was.
@Freddy19677
2 ай бұрын
OIRA to INLA to IPLO to CIRA , a journeyman nutter.
@davenic9781
Ай бұрын
@@Freddy19677 it's far too easy to label someone like Gerard as a nutjob. He was an active gunman and operator and lets leave that there. Certainly his involvement in ridding Mr Murphy off the scene was widely celebrated. Was it elements with loyalism that set Murphy up, probably/possibly, but thats another story. When a member of the army or special forces goes onto do private military contract work, mercenary or close protection work, why are they never labelled as "nut jobs" despite the risks and dangers that being in that life represents.
@Freddy19677
Ай бұрын
@@davenic9781 true
What a load of, I suppose, shite.