For this episode I'm joined by a man well known ex-loyalist paramilitary and one-time leader of the Lower Shankill Road's infamous UDA (Ulster Defence Association), Johnny Adair.

Johnny speaks about his growing up in Belfast during some of it's most turbulent and violent times, his lifelong friend with UDA k*ller Sam McCrory and he came to join, and later lead the Lower Shankill Road's UDA C- Company.

We discussed his days as an active paramilitary, his many near brushes with death and how he viewed his opposition, the Provisional IRA and the INLA/IPLO. I asked Johnny his thoughts on C-Company's victims and whether he has any regrets looking back. We spoke about the RUC's many attempts to both jail him, which they eventually would, and to recruit him as an informant.

Johnny shares his surprising thoughts on the republican hunger strikers who died in 1981, whether he himself would have been willing to do the same if called upon and what life is like for him now, living away from the city that he once saw himself a defender of.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
1:5 Thoughts on Kneecap member’s charges?
9:45 United Ireland ?
15:30 If Johnny went back to the Shankill
20:21 Growing Up
29:40 Sam “SKELLY” McCrory
37:45 Training (Brian Nelson, Ken Barrett
55:20 Did C- Company do “spur-of-the-moment-k*lls” ?
1:06:40 DID C-COMP EVER EVEN INJURE OR K*LL ANY IRA MEN?
1:25:00 INLA
1:26:40 “House-takeovers” by UDA C-comp
1:30:45 John McMichael k*lling by the IRA
1:33:15 IRA ALMOST K*LL JOHNNY ADAIR
1:49:00 SHANKILL ROAD FISH SHOP B*MB
1:53:00 Dr*g-dealing & Extortion ?
1:55:10 GETTING CAUGHT & JAILED
1:59:40 Special Branch’s attempts to recruit Johnny as an informant
2:12:00 PRISON
2:16:10 Johnny’s respect for the IRA Hunger Strikers
2:26:15 Loyalist Feud
2:31:05 Relationship w/ Skelly and Regrets/Remorse?

For this week's episode I'm joined by ex-investigative journalist and MP, Chris Mullin, who though his efforts, was able to help free the falsely convicted Irishmen known as "the Birmingham 6".

We speak about the sequence of events on the November 21st 1974 which left a mark on the city and people of Birmingham, k*lling 21 people and injuring over 200 and how the 6 innocent men ended up in prison for this heinous IRA b*mnbing.

Chris also talks about his own involvement in the case and how he put his reputation on the line to pursue the truth and prove the innocence of these men, the impact this had on the British justice system and how they eventually got free.

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00:00 Intro
2:00 THE NIGHT OF THE B*MBING
8:00 Arrests
16:45 Trial
24:40 Chris’ involvement

This week I’m joined by Austin Stack, son of murdered Portlaoise Maximum Secruity Prison Officer, Brian Stack, who was shot and later died after a planned IRA attack in 1983.

Austin tells us about the night his father was shot, what his life was like in the 18 months between Brian being sh*t in the head and his eventual passing and how he would later come to a place of forgiveness.

I asked Austin about his quest for truth surrounding his father’s death, those who were involved and where they are now, his meetings and relationship with Gerry Adams and what “justice” for his father would mean.


00:00 Intro
10:30 Who in the prison was colluding with the IRA
14:50 THE NIGHT AUSTIN’S FATHER WAS SHOT (1983)
26:35 Brian Stack’s life after being shot
37:15 Austin personal journey to find the truth
54:45 Meeting Gerry Adams & Secret Meeting
1:39:40 Forgiveness
1:45:30 DOES BRIAN KNOW WHO (& WHERE) THE K*LLERS ARE?
1:49:30 Relationship w/ Gerry Adams

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