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Ulster Special Constabulary 'B-Specials' To Be Disbanded, Northern Ireland 1969

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  • čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
  • The Hunt Report recommends that the Ulster Special Constabulary be disbanded and replaced with a new security force.
    ‘7 Days’ takes a look at the workings of the Ulster Special Constabulary and talks to some serving members.
    Former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) was the first Commandant of the Ulster Special Constabulary or ‘B-Specials’ as they are commonly known gives his reaction that the force will be dissolved..
    The B Specials, probably the most hated police force in Europe.
    What are the members of the B-Specials really like and why have they got such a bad reputation?
    Tom McCahy, builder and a member of the Ulster Special Constabulary for the last twenty seven years, recalls situations where he has used his weapon when caught in violence. He believes that a campaign of propaganda has resulted in the B-Specials bad reputation.
    District Commandant Wallace Clarke is the third generation of his family to be a member of the B-Specials. He says the B-Specials were established to fight terrorism in Northern Ireland. He refutes any claims that they are bully boys and says he would not be a member of such a force.
    Our image has got completely astray. The reasons why chaps are in the special contabulary, they’re ordinary, decent, kindly people just like any other group. They dislike their families being terrorised.
    They are now to be disbanded and replaced by a new internal security force.
    People in the North, Catholics and Protestants, always slightly fear the Specials, especially in time of trouble when jittery fingers have been known to be over hasty on the trigger.
    Founder of the B-Specials Lord Brookeborough believes that the B Specials have achieved what they set out to do when they were established over fifty years ago.
    This episode of ‘7 Days’ was broadcast on 17 October 1969. The reporter is Rodney Rice.

Komentáře • 124

  • @seantoner7392
    @seantoner7392 Před rokem +51

    Interesting fact: the bars of Long Kesh prison cells were modelled on this man's teeth

    • @MsRichycon
      @MsRichycon Před rokem +5

      🤣

    • @Ned-ke3ui
      @Ned-ke3ui Před rokem +3

      🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @Vvv-1690
      @Vvv-1690 Před 10 měsíci +1

      More like the bodies of the hungerstrikers 😂😂😂

  • @alllovingcowherdboy4475
    @alllovingcowherdboy4475 Před rokem +12

    "didn't think at all"...British Motto

  • @seancrowe8488
    @seancrowe8488 Před rokem +23

    A protestant force for a protestant people.

  • @edwardogrady6587
    @edwardogrady6587 Před rokem +2

    1.52 - 2.09, the camera man just couldn’t resist a close up, his curiosity got the better of him. To be fair to the first man, he talked a lot of sense

  • @frootmcgoose3076
    @frootmcgoose3076 Před rokem +23

    This fella would give Dracula a run for his money... He'd scare the paint off your front door..

  • @desmondhull5778
    @desmondhull5778 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Ulsters heroes ,lived worked and fought among the enemy.

  • @hugostiglitz6914
    @hugostiglitz6914 Před rokem +5

    His teeth look like a terrace of condemned houses!😂

  • @sirterryhoosh2779
    @sirterryhoosh2779 Před rokem +6

    Thon bai cud ate an Apple through a letterbox...

  • @ballockybill2277
    @ballockybill2277 Před rokem +8

    A lot of truth spoken By the first man , though I'd be from the other side of the divide .

  • @Genetulsa1
    @Genetulsa1 Před rokem +6

    Another great upload!

  • @barrysmith4999
    @barrysmith4999 Před rokem +10

    Life is short ...smile while you still have teeth!

  • @williammohan9784
    @williammohan9784 Před rokem +2

    that first B Man should have been disbanded for those teeth alone. Its like a graveyard is missing some of its tombstones

  • @df289
    @df289 Před rokem +14

    we have come a long way in dental hygiene

    • @soulboy6073
      @soulboy6073 Před 2 měsíci +2

      He Needs to get over to Turkey ' to sort them teeth out

  • @colinmcclean9787
    @colinmcclean9787 Před 9 dny

    A lot of people going for the man and not the argument.

  • @paulgalligan1916
    @paulgalligan1916 Před rokem +7

    Not a bar in the grate ..
    Pure Irish head on the fella..

    • @tomasomaonaigh7659
      @tomasomaonaigh7659 Před rokem +2

      He'd have taken offence, more to the latter than the former statement.
      I wonder what he would have thought about the two top roles in the Gards being loyal to the Crown.

    • @roachdoggjr3235
      @roachdoggjr3235 Před rokem +6

      Look at his teeth mate. He's Bri'ish through and through

    • @paulgalligan1916
      @paulgalligan1916 Před rokem +2

      @@roachdoggjr3235 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jackmcnally9237
      @jackmcnally9237 Před rokem +1

      Tom ! See my comment!

    • @paulgalligan1916
      @paulgalligan1916 Před rokem +1

      @@jackmcnally9237 can't find it bro

  • @misteryman5109
    @misteryman5109 Před rokem +4

    I guess dental benefits was not a thing back than sweet jebus...

  • @Canned_Knight
    @Canned_Knight Před rokem +3

    Interesting

  • @dco1929
    @dco1929 Před rokem +3

    Different times

  • @stephenholmes1036
    @stephenholmes1036 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The SA

  • @ohno2112
    @ohno2112 Před rokem +10

    The state of denial is alive and well in the north of Ireland. As Shakespeare stated a rose by any other name is still a Rose. The police force of the north of Ireland call it what you like it still the b-specials…….

    • @raftonpounder6696
      @raftonpounder6696 Před rokem

      Says the resident of the country about to elect the IRA into power. Oh the irony.

    • @tomasomaonaigh7659
      @tomasomaonaigh7659 Před rokem +1

      @@raftonpounder6696 We've all been sold down the river by lying politicians on both sides.
      Hard to swallow I know, so many good people died for what.
      God save Ulster,
      Munster, Leinster and Connacht .

    • @raftonpounder6696
      @raftonpounder6696 Před rokem +1

      @@tomasomaonaigh7659 you are so right.

    • @johnmccormick334
      @johnmccormick334 Před rokem +1

      Disbanding Bs was a great success? Disband UDR? Disband RUC? Disband British Army? Is there a trend? Disband the Free State Army? Disband PSNI? I think we know what you want.

    • @raftonpounder6696
      @raftonpounder6696 Před rokem

      @@johnmccormick334 yes. They almost have their dream. An IRA controlled Ireland. That will end well!

  • @verily_verily
    @verily_verily Před rokem +21

    They were a special bunch of b's alright ...

    • @raftonpounder6696
      @raftonpounder6696 Před rokem +2

      God bless them. You are far too young to remember them.

    • @TheNinyo77
      @TheNinyo77 Před rokem

      @@raftonpounder6696 god bless them ??? God wouldn't piss on them !!! They where a shower of bigoted bastards ,who caused more damage than stopped it .

    • @raftonpounder6696
      @raftonpounder6696 Před rokem

      @@TheNinyo77 yes because they were good at what they did and prevented the IRA from wrecking the country. Once they were gone, all hell broke loose. It’s funny how Republicans number one target for disbandment were the B Men. I wonder why?

    • @TheNinyo77
      @TheNinyo77 Před rokem

      @@raftonpounder6696 ohhhh ffs please ,lol lol you literally sound like a fool saying that sort of shit , these where simple and I mean challenged men in every aspect of life , couldnt read ,couldnt write ,sectarian and bigoted too the bone , they ran ffs outa the bogside ,kids with bricks and bottles beat them , NOT one shot fired at them ,same on the to falls rd ,they led the pogrom on Bombay st ,Dover st etc and faced only men and boys from the lower falls area ,and STILL couldn't suppress them ,they failed in EVERY task they where given ,except murder a child Patrick Rooney aged 9 , a serving soldier Trooper McCabe ,and even one of the full-time cops who disagreed with them Victor Arbuckle

    • @raftonpounder6696
      @raftonpounder6696 Před rokem

      @@TheNinyo77 you know just enough not to eat yourself. The Specials were not involved at all in The Battle of the Bogside. The UVF shot Arbuckle in rioting because of the Hunt Report. There is nothing you have said has any truth in it. All worthy of An Phoblacht. Lies, bigotry and hatred. That’s all you know.

  • @calumpatrick319
    @calumpatrick319 Před rokem +12

    Time uncovers all lies

  • @olearyma57
    @olearyma57 Před 10 měsíci

    If he was in ROI he would get PRSI dental benefits !. Foolish Boy.

  • @joprocter4573
    @joprocter4573 Před rokem +2

    Best intelligence service from Jo average man there has ever been. Ira terrorists don't like regular forces who can read their evil actions. To save life n community..

  • @LOGOS422
    @LOGOS422 Před rokem +13

    Smell the colonialism. Brookbourough and his English accent.

  • @michaelohalloran2800
    @michaelohalloran2800 Před rokem +1

    There's only one side.And if you don't know it you are the problem.

  • @premierfuncasino
    @premierfuncasino Před rokem

    Harry Enfield

  • @MV12379
    @MV12379 Před dnem

    Make ULSTER GREAT AGAIN 😂

  • @Neo-mw1pp
    @Neo-mw1pp Před rokem +2

    Back of that wagons reg "CIA" da fuck??

    • @verily_verily
      @verily_verily Před rokem

      You'd be surprised at how many vehicle plates are occultic and display messages. We have been duped and hoodwinked by these secret societies as they operate hidden in plain sight.

  • @CallumMcDonald77
    @CallumMcDonald77 Před 3 měsíci +2

    🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @MultiPsycopat
    @MultiPsycopat Před rokem

    should be a lollypop man on his face to stop the traffic

  • @jameslarkin8494
    @jameslarkin8494 Před 4 měsíci

    The B-Specials remind me of the Israelies...Our Day will Come..

  • @michaelohalloran2800
    @michaelohalloran2800 Před rokem +1

    Stand up for yourself Like a good paddy said. No future and Englands burning.

    • @Vvv-1690
      @Vvv-1690 Před 10 měsíci

      Dublin is burning at the moment 🤣🤣🤣

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 Před 5 měsíci

      Us Paddy's always stood up for ourselves and burnt plenty

  • @liamanderson1960
    @liamanderson1960 Před rokem +1

    What dors B Specials mean

    • @merrybutcher2978
      @merrybutcher2978 Před rokem +1

      Protestant milita

    • @TheOfficialSJCProductions
      @TheOfficialSJCProductions Před 7 měsíci +1

      If I remember correctly:
      •A Specials were full-time and paid
      •B Specials were part-time and unpaid
      •C Specials were usually unpaid old farts for static guard duties
      •C1 Specials are just some C Specials that can be called in case crap hits the fan

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@TheOfficialSJCProductionsand they put all together and got the RUC