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Alan my heart goes out to you xx

Guerilla warfare is pussy.

He's wrong about Bobby Sands being from Tyrone. Makes me wonder what else is inaccurate? Good listen nevertheless.

Laughable - killed women children and unarmed men for Ireland to hand it over to muslims.

Gerry and Martin touted on them

Pretty sure there is UA-cam videos on “the siege of the short strand”

Why is this man not arrested

Tate is a world champ kickboxer he knows how to fight

Once a policeman never a man.

How many British assets did Freddie S take out in order to maintain his position? East Tyrone unit's fate is minuscule in comparison. Makes you think ..

You're probably sick of the question - but do you know where this doc can be viewed? Does Alleycats have any plans to release it any time soon?

This guys version of the paras and sas in Ireland and NI history in general is so biased it’s laughably ridiculous he shows himself to be completely ignorant and incapable of understanding one side of the war

This guy is exactly the type to collude with uda, udf and lvf in murdering ordinary civilians; 40 years on his hatred for the nationalists and republicans is palpable and obvious

I heard Adam’s informed on splinter or more extreme cells of the PIRA ie 1987 SAS Longal police station assault.

Sas lost a lot of men during the conflict to the provos so they were not that clever 😉

Can’t wait for this John… Hopefully it’s going to be an epic… Question? Has anyone read Agents of Influence: Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA Book by Aaron Edwards?. I’ve just finished Steaknifes dirty war by Richard on rawe, absolutely brilliant book. Just looking for another good read on similar topics? Any suggestions would be appreciated

Armagh and East tyrone they came from

The gov security forces police and sb know and knew every player. Politics more often than not came into play. SA pira we're busy making money through criminal activity and still do it today unabated.

Don't make out it was hard work in Ulster did it myself the people are great like everywhere else nothing like Iraq or the Afghan stop jumping on the bandwagon Ireland was level one proper fighting in proper wars

Sounds as if Will Britten was a member if SAB , no wonder FRU could not defeat them . He just has not a notion . Farmers and smugglers were far too clever for to be defeated by idiots like Will , oh and a lot of money was made during the campaign . John has the hots for SAB , he easily dismisses Kingsmills , Tullyvallen , Darkley and the ethnic cleansing . Overall SAB were a well motivated , well organised , well equipped murder machine , who gave it their best shot and were still defeated . South Armagh is still British and whatever tax they pay , if any , goes to the British Purse . That was the final outcome , all the poor people who met untimely deaths at he hands of SAB , really died for nothing , including their own members . The prestige narrative offered to SAB , is partially true , to the extent that they fought a long disciplined war and were in a position of strength even at end of the campaign . They let their image down by engaging in fully sectarian attacks against totally innocent civilians . Surely if they were men of principle , they would reveal where they buried the remainder of the poor souls that were disappeared into the bogs of Ireland . Maybe that does not fit into their 2024 image . What do you think John or Will or does that go against your book selling narrative ?

Fantastic podcast John. Very impressed with John Triggs knowledge on the subject and impartiality

IRA Are evil Terrorists and always will be and ulster is even more divided its godless and full of sin but now the south its getting its turn.

MICE Money Ideology Coercion Extortion

Didn't think of yer average UDA guy as a Bob Dylan fan

'They didn't plant bombs in busy shopping centres and drive off'.Quite so.I mean what sort of cold blooded cowards would do something like that? The SA PIRA may have stopped army vehicles on the ground but not in the air- so the Queens writ was maintained across the length and breadth of the UK and, having just checked an atlas I can see that South Armagh is still part of Great Britain in 2024, just as it was in 1924, 1824 and 1724. So please remind me what the SA PIRA was trying to achieve? If it was to take NI out of GB, they didn't do a good job. I never understood the 'Brits Out' mantra, Northern Ireland IS part of Britain and has been for hundreds of years.

I am almost finished his book, very insightful. Don't blame him for not showing his face in this podcast. In terms of what iv read and learnt in recent years, the FRU were sentimental in helping to defeat the provos, and I believe their work in part amongst others drove them to the negotiating table, whereby the 'Republic' was not even on the table.

I met Slab socially last week & my God its hard to credit what he controlled in a war situation. Some man for wan man.

Question is , where are they now ?? I was in Antrim in the early 80s and we damn well KNEW they were there for us Brits . We had armed checkpoints to keep us safe from them . Why are they not bothered about the current obvious invasion ?? WTH ??

I read once that they tried to fire a SAM but it failed to fire and the cause was faulty or dead battery packs in them but I am sure their engineers could have solved that problem. SAMS were not the only things that could be used against helicopters though, RPG-7's, heavy calibre machine guns, heavy calibre sniper guns, homemade exploding projectiles... The SAM's were a boost in morale for the IRA and a psychological threat, even when not being utilized to pilots and those onboard the aircraft.

#CanaryWharf & #Warrington targeted civilians .

Is he for real

Collusion Collusion Collusion. The British army supported the loyalist paramilitaries death squads in mass murder. This will never be forgotten and never should be. The British played an extremely dirty game.

The British government named IRA army council member Brian Keenan as the number 1 biggest threat to the UK full stop. Not slab

Good to hear a brit acknowledge that their adversy were professional and cunning and to be respected, to much of the annoyance of some loyalists.

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Why do you delete comments my friend that are total fact and none insulting ? Even when I can quote from uour previous guests podcasts if I had not actually been here to witness it?

South Armagh PIRA Didn’t target off duty RUC or UDR men….is this guy for real??

South Armagh PIRA didn’t target innocent civilians?? What about the Kingsmill massacre??

Bobby Sands from Tyrone 😮 now that's unusual 😂

Boom 💥💥💥 smased it with another top quest. Thanks John keep up the good work 👍👍👍

Kingsmills was never claimed by the Pira. It was supposedly in response to the Glenann gang murders of the Reavy and O' Dowd families. It has been suggested an agent provacatuer was involved in this cycle of violence.

So , this character thinks they didn’t target innocent civilians , someone tell him about the ten Protestant workers shot dead at kings mills , or the massacre at tullyvallen orange hall , as well as many Protestant farmers who were in the part time UDR , no credibility whatsoever , shameful…..

Seems like this lad is dragging u into dark places

Hello Will Britten. My name is Billy Irish.

Did he say the IRA had over 250 informers

dont buy this guy i smell BS. i think the only Army he was in was the Savation Army for a few evenings

Brilliant interview.

Excellent interview. Thanks for sharing your story Alan.

Is there an update from Seamus?

I know Graham very well we meet in the 80s never had any problems, good pal my neighbour god bless you