EX-RUC SPECIAL BRANCH MAN on SOUTH ARMAGH IRA | "An Army.. Within An Army"
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Ex-RUC special branch officer William Matchett gives his thoughts on the exceptional effectiveness of the South Armagh IRA and what made them such a deadly enemy of the security forces.
William spent part of his career in the South Armagh area and dealt firsthand with the “army.. within an army”
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Young People today are lucky not to have grown up during the Troubles
While Bandit County on South Armagh by Toby H is an excellent book, I feel it is time for someone able to gain more access and with more personal interest in the subject to cover both Tyrone and Armagh Brigades in one comprehensive study.
The mortar on the back of the tractor, the "Mark 60" was first used at Clogher RUC barracks in early 1994 by operators in the locality and North Monaghan.
Barrack busters / also
A name for a 3L cider bottle 😅
@@cormchm2853 i know nothing about anything at All !!!
@@TirEoghainTim they ran a d hid behind the border
Funny story, about fifteen years ago I got a call from a former Garda friend of mine who had spent time on the Armagh/Monaghan border during the ''trouble's''. He said ''watch the news'' holy fuck see that lad on there now called Slab Murphy, well many a game of cards we used to have with him. He used to visit them regularly in their security hut for card games at night & they never realised (at that time) he was the ''main man'' in the area. BTW he said Slab was one helluva of a cute operator on the deck...
U need to interview John nixon armagh hunger striker best story for ya
02:49 "dude"...aye I'm sure that's what the RUC were saying to each other in 1977
What's the chance of getting some of the South Armagh men on, Sean G Hughes, Caraher or better still Slab, would make great listening. Doubt they'd be too keen to talk opening but it would certainly be interesting
No chance
Slab Murphy ain't talking to anybody
I’d say you would have better luck finding snow in the desert and winning 2 lottery’s all at the same time.
@@gshadow30-x4z Dream come true if I could 😍😍
@gerardhenry5501 not a hope if them boys don't know your entire family line,they won't even acknowledge you.
Introductions are not possible now or in the future
Ffs name Gerry Adams for the Loughgall Massacre.. he was the tout cos they threatened him .. !!!!
What do you base your comment on, or is this merely conjecture on your part?
@@KennethFunstonOf course it's conjecture on his part. He probably wasn't even alive during the troubles.
Stop calling people Touts. You have no evidence for your claim other than rumour, speculation & conjecture. The IRA were riddled with informers from top to bottom.
My family had a farm in Armagh. British confiscated the land in the early 1900s. If you wonder why people take up arms.
The successful units had no informers. Informers defeated the IRA.
Was just about to say the Loughgall ones were up there, but those units were the exception to informers, the provos were and still are infiltrated by mi5/6, its funny how that video of mcguinness was only "found" after dead and it was owned by a British company, can't wait 4 him that was never even in them 2 go
When were they defeated? I must’ve missed that news. I remember them signing a ceasefire and then decommissioning their weapons when they were happy with the political concessions they’d gained from the British state.
@@Dreyno otherwise known as defeat.
@@balor7 Known by whom as “defeat”? People who struggle with words? Withdrawing your soldiers, dismantling bases and outposts whilst granting political power to your enemies is a lot more like defeat.
United Ireland is nearer now than ever, no defeat-just a slower than desired victory, how's your king doing 😂😂?
Tyrone were like a Crew Of Dan Breens Flying Column , CZcams Dan Breens interview.
Tyrone PIRA were virtually wiped out by the Security Forces.
@@KennethFunstonNonsense, east Tyrone became more active after loughgall not less
@@KennethFunston No it wasn't, there was plenty of men and women willing to step up
The irony of a RUC special branch man calling someone a "terrorist." They wrote the book on it.
Please expand on your comment with supporting evidence.
@@KennethFunston RUC officers joining the UDA had to be officially outlawed in the early 80s.. look up why
Local farmer sons and daughters were up against thousands of British soldiers, RUC, UDR. When something was going down , you could get 500 British soldiers surrounding a 10-mile area. Helicoptes.
The Provies were brave men and women.
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They relied upon political restraint. The SS would not have been so forgiving under similar circumstances.
Brave men or woman they were not! Nothing brave in hiding in a building, vehicle or bush waiting to slaughter unsuspecting police or military, or detonating a bomb from hundreds of meters away, sometimes from within another jurisdiction. Callous and barbaric is what they were, brave most certainly not!
SS were just official sanctioned terrorists.@@vespelian
The English knew everything about the IRA and what weapons they had - it was war games to them & "active training. That's why they were never allowed hand held surface to air missiles or the ability to take out Helicopters !!
@@johncummins3860 I don’t know about allowing weapons. But for the Military it was definitely viewed as a training exercise. I was on an exercise in Germany where nine lives were lost. Four tours of NI , we lost one lad in a car accident.
Are we getting the full episode on CZcams John.
@@therealpaddy4687 Friday my man
You gotta Hawk Tuah spit on that thang 💦
me little armalite? 🤣
In the maze
Only recently the Russians started using 3000lbs glide bombs on frontline Ukraine. If they're ones ive seen they're not far off tactical nukes.
Then he says the south armath didn't try anything spectacular like the A team lol. He must know what I've suspected was that final explosion in London was allowed to happen to trick them into thinking they had achieved something
I used to liaise with RUC Special Branch in RUC Castlereagh in the 1990s on a weekly basis. They were an 'odd' sort. I could see they had witnessed years of death and destruction. One of the senior officers was a female. I had a thing for her but she was married. Occasionally I'd drink with them at the RUC social club. Hard drinkers, mean as fcuk but great sense of humour.
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2 week build up ton this...
Preview. As always.
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Good video , that man obviously knows what he’s talking about .
U can see he was an evil man back then not saying now cause people do change but where he says "might be collapsed building and "few corpses 👿 " his own comrades at that it make yea sick
I can't see that at all. I thought he was particularly fair and respectful. He no doubt was badly affected by what he saw at the time. Do you want him to blub on camera? Give the man a break.
Not sure where you are coming from. The guy is recounting his experience how he sees it. Not sure what your issue is.
@@bcgraham3512 He comes across as a fair lad. Doing his job as he saw it. A good cop in other words.
I think he's been though quite a bit his life and from his age he just says how it is like he's probably spent a long time dealing with the emotions that he rather just say how it actually went down rather than holding back on some grief