CAPT ROBERT NAIRAC: DISAPPEARED BY THE IRA

Disappeared by the PIRA, captain Robert Nairac has been accused of involvement in the murder of an IRA member and of collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.
Allegations were made concerning Nairac in a 1993 Yorkshire Television documentary about the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of May 1974 entitled Hidden Hand. The narrator states:
We have evidence from police, military and loyalist sources which confirms the links between Nairac and the Portadown loyalist paramilitaries.
And also that in May 1974, he was meeting with these paramilitaries, supplying them with arms and helping them plan acts of terrorism against Republican targets.
In particular, the three prime Dublin [bomb attacks] suspects, Robert McConnell, Harris Boyle and the man called 'The Jackal' (Robin Jackson, Ulster Volunteer Force [UVF] member from Lurgan), were rung before and after the Dublin bombings by Captain Nairac.
According to the documentary, support for this allegation was said to have come from various sources:
They include officers from RUC Special Branch, CID and Special Patrol Group; officers from the Gardaí Special Branch; and key senior loyalists who were in charge of the County Armagh paramilitaries of the day....
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[@fiachramaccana280]

Nairac was one of the very worst . Never forget there were three terrorist campaigns going on simultaneously in Northern Ireland during the troubles; Republican; Loyalist and British military. Nairac was a British military terrorist operator.

[@doctorp4237]

In your totally unbiased opinion...

[@fiachramaccana280]

@@doctorp4237 not my opinion. Several British military intelligence colleagues have disclosed this in public over the years. The Irish govrrnment holds this as their official view. Various UK documentaries have put this forward as has many UK print media. The British carried out a terrorist campaign in the North organised by British military intelligence. Nairac was a key contact between them and the Glenane gang, the most prolific terrorist group during the Troubles in terms of murdercount. He got too cocky and got taken out. Boo hoo. That is not an opinion. Its widely accepted fact. That you cant accept it is (1) your opinion and (2) your problem. Frankly speaking, nobody in the world gives a rat's arse what the British think about anything anymore....... So piss into the wind all ye like... all you get is your own pee in yer face.

[@user-kc6xi8bf7k]

So what was he doing in South Armagh at that time. Just as well the IRA did not take him.....otherwise it would end in a cross border trip to a safe house and God knows what else. He was a brave but very stupid spy.

[@Ishkybibble]

Cut and dry case of “fuck around and find out”

[@peterbustin2683]

Just found this channel. Great documentaries. Subbed !

[@gerardb9501]

A new face in a bar , was always going to suspect, locals struck together

[@kevinwhelan9607]

A very valuable contribution to the history of the Troubles. Thank you .

[@apintofbeer1667]

British security services already know where Nairac`s body is because they had so many high placed informers carrying out these crimes within the IRA

[@i.marr.6688]

He didn't take precautions ignored his own army about going around as an intelligence agent ,And going into a South Armagh was not a good idea ,he underestimated the South Armagh I.R.A

[@tangerinedreamer50]

His ego killed him

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Imagine going into south armagh at that time thinking you would ok....even today you wouldn't go there and be anything but a stranger and quizzed to the high hilt lol

[@i.marr.6688]

@@jackietreehorn5561 It was very dangerous South Armagh I don't know what possessed him to go in there and start singing IRA songs

[@williambates2812]

@@i.marr.6688 He wasn’t killed by The IRA, he will killed by IRA wannabes! Republicans Yes! But not members of the IRA.

[@i.marr.6688]

@@williambates2812 I didn't know that I thought One of the men who killed him was IRA. He was lucky the IRA didn't catch him can you Imagine what the South Armagh IRA would have done to him.

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Fine piece of no frills journalism.

[@Genetulsa1]

A great video! I enjoyed watching this history lesson.

[@ericpowell194]

He was SAS

[@fellspoint9364]

Did they, in fact, shoot him with his own gun ? It certainly sounds like he was SAS. He gambled and lost that round.

[@judithnelson1665]

The as yet defintive book on Nairac is "Betrayal" by Alistair Kerr( 2015,. 2017 2nd ed) which disagrees with too many factual and interpretative points with this film to list, especially the testimony of Col. Fairweather on Nairac's character and his mission.

[@sunrayisdown1690]

Ask why the Troubles started in the first place in 1968 !

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Goes way beyond that....

[@shark7734]

I think Donal should investigate the Miami show band massacre, and Roberts involvement

[@dennishbergkamp]

That doesn't suit his agenda.

[@dennishbergkamp]

@paddyleblanc Thick why?

[@user-lo3bp2gb8d]

This was no angel one of the most sinister people Britain ever sent into Ireland your agent wasn't as smart as he thought and was always going to be found out in South Armagh

[@peter9180]

I wonder if those responsible for the attack against the Miami Showband group have regrets, what goes around comes around.

[@tangerinedreamer50]

I could never understand the cunning behaviour of them to come up with that

[@RobertK1993]

Ulster Presbyterians are to anti Roman Catholic to express remorse

[@donnagreer6558]

Who the UVF

[@jb-wy8go]

So he was involved in the miami showband killings? Evidence to support that? I bet you enjoyed the omagh bombing. Was that the one where they killed the pregnant Protestant woman the one that was going to have twins? 3 dead prodies for the price of one. Did it turn you on??

[@dickdiver9614]

@@donnagreer6558 Wesley ended up in the field identified by his UVF tattoo on his arm in the next field, Harris Boyle obliterated putting the bomb in the back of the bus, McConnell shot by the IRA in 1976, Nairic shot dead. Jackson died of cancer in 1998 aged 49, his sidekick Rab Kerr vaporised by an explosion 1997 (suspiciously) with a speedboat on the M1? The truth eventually got out. Scumbags all and Nairac the biggest of them all. Leave him where he is, he deserved it.

[@stephenoneill2844]

How do I cross the border unseen by the Brits coming from a stranger in that area at that time? He was asking for trouble. I personally think that they should give up the body. RIP troop.

[@nowleta]

Living in Dreamland he was if he thought those Armagh boys wouldn't suss him out.

[@thomaspurvey]

The Captain ignored the first lesson taught to a Soldier in the Black Watch, Never Underestimate the Enemy, Decorated for being a (Stand Out) undercover operative??

[@smith5796]

How could Nairac have kept in character during that interrogation. He knew he was a British Soldier.

[@jerryoconnor4572]

@#####Smith . I would venture that it was his training in the SAS. A very brave man.

[@dw349]

Stupid man, wandering into the three steps by himself. My dad is from the area and what Nairac did was just stupidity.

[@dobman2011]

@@jerryoconnor4572 a clown.

[@RobertK1993]

Nairc strange British surname lol 🤣

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@jerryoconnor4572 didn't relise the SAS ran acting classes

[@CarrigansGuitarClub]

Nairac got to cocky with the enemy.....learned a dear lesson. No body to give back by all accounts. Nairac was turned into Pig feed. I always remembered that quote I heard in the 80's....."The IRA were embarrassed by the Nairac incident, not that they feed him to the pigs, that they shot him before properly interrogating him"

[@AndrewWands]

The IRA achieved nothing. The shit hole is still under British control 🙄

[@ohno2112]

Great job !

[@MickKly-ih4it]

Ministry of Defence papers revealed Nairac was involved with the infamous Glenanne gang, loyalist killers who were responsible for the murders of hundreds of innocent Catholic in the border areas , Nairac allegedly supplied the uniforms and other equipment to the gang that stopped the Miami Showband and blew up their van killing almost all the members of the band plus some of their own as it exploded prematurely while being loaded. Nairac underestimated the very tight knit communities where any stranger would stick out like a sore thumb , if as alleged he was involved with loyalist paramilitaries who murdered so many innocent people then I’d say his death would have been celebrated in many parts of Ireland.

[@alanbbrady8196]

I read Toby Handren's book 'Bandit Country '. In it , it is professed by those at the Three Steps Pub thought he was an idiot .Worse than that he assumed regulars in the pub were idiots . Recently i attended a course in Marlborough , Wiltshire and the Teacher was a former colleague of Nairac . Even he said Nairac was a habititual wannabe hero who risked the safety of his comrades by staging James Bond style missions for himself . Evidently no-one in his regiment had any respect for him .

[@jackietreehorn5561]

An education doesn't mean smart... obviously not

[@Hartley_Hare]

I've had the huge pleasure of working with people in the Army and they said something similar. Brave soldiers are one thing, but a brave officer with Ideas can get people killed.

[@martinmcmanus2815]

He obviously believed that he could pass himself off as a Irishman very foolish arrogent man boys own stuff

[@Hartley_Hare]

@@martinmcmanus2815 And he paid for it with his life, so enough of the moralising.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@Hartley_Hare nothing moral about killing at the end of the day

[@jackwild8019]

He has been described as the great enigma of the conflict in Northern Ireland. And he was. It is coming up to 46 years since he vanished from that pub in South Armagh and then transported to Ravensdale forest across the border. His big mistake was to visit the pub in Dromintee on two consecutive nights 🌙. Some have accused him of being involved in the Miami massacre but is anybody 💯 per cent certain. He is truly the great enigma, that sultry night he drove to the Three Steps Inn pub in his red Triumph Toleda, playing a cassette of the Bellamy Brothers. A long time ago. His body may have been covered over by the building of the motorway and the people who reburied his remains may have passed away themselves...shrouded in the mists of time...🇬🇧💀🇮🇪

[@willfoster2635]

A sad end

[@dickdiver9614]

@@willfoster2635 If even a fraction of what he was accused of was true, a meat grinder was too good for him.

[@willfoster2635]

@@dickdiver9614 A man is innocent until proven guilty.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

One of the Miami showband survivors identified his at the scene....he was up to no good regardless...no matter what he done clandestine operatives are always denied by the government

[@dickdiver9614]

@@willfoster2635 Wow. Michael Flanagan the solicitor of Valerie Anderson the widow of Fran O Toole who was shot 22 times in the face eventually got the British MOD to release papers on the Miami showband attack in 1974. Guess what slick, your innocent till proven guilty was there. He was a piece of shit, riling up both sides to create a civil war situation. Do your research before you get on your high horse.

[@osamabinliner9781]

It was a war not troubles until one side decided to play the I’m an unarmed mon card

[@jpmtlhead39]

He was not an "Angel" of a man. And found out the hard way what is " victims" were capable off. Its better for both sides keep the silence,because the ugly truth might trigger very old but still very alive grudges. And no one wants that. PS: the physical reaction and the first look at the reporter when he asked for the whereabauts of the deceased,its Pure Hatred, Disgust/disdain for the person he killed even after 30 years. It was a very, very personal thing.

[@TheCatBilbo]

He was a chancer & believed in his own abilities too much, that can get you killed. He was also brave & died doing his duty.

[@tuesdayjames5470]

Were his actions authorised by his superiors or was he a renegade freelancer? He got exactly what he deserved, playing James Bond in Armagh, Ireland.

[@tuesdayjames5470]

He died in Armagh, Ireland. Playing James Bond. 26+6=32.

[@irishpride9867]

Was his duty killing innocent people???

[@Irish780]

He was in on they murder of Catholics a great British soldier ye sure

[@TyronePatOne]

The uvf handkerchief nairiac carried says it all

[@fellspoint9364]

Good point.

[@-DC-]

Rip all that were lost growing up in Belfast in the 70's this all seemed completely normal 😂

[@ericpowell194]

He should never have been in another person's country as the natives fought to get him and his merry men out

[@Horizon344]

Excellent investigative journalism. McCormick's remorse was powerful to listen to. That war took & damaged a lot of lives. Those who know where Nairac's body is buried should hand it back to his people, firstly because it's the right thing do in conscience, & secondly if it remains lost in the Irish landscape he increasingly becomes a mythical figure to the British, who will consequentially identify themselves psychologically with that territory.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Definitely should have remains given back...I'd say ones that know probably near dead now

[@Horizon344]

@@pooooornopigeon Irish nightmare stories

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@pooooornopigeon was that not bricktop in snatch?

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@pooooornopigeon "now if you don't mind telling me who the fuck u are, apart from someone who feeds people to pigs of course"

[@pooooornopigeon]

@@Horizon344 Maybe maybe not.

[@johnnorth1961]

He was doomed from the time he became an undercover agent

[@seanmurphy1704]

When I was younger I was in the royal navy, and used to go on leave to Dundalk, many times I was approached in pubs, and was questioned by locals, I knew I was under suspicion, but managed to leave these pubs intact, but I always felt like I was going to get jumped further on in the night, I don't know if the navy was seen as a legit target but assumed it was, looking back I feel like I was a lucky person to have gotten away with it

[@jamesodwyer1631]

Politics aside the investigator had big balls asking those questions

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Think Roger cook paved the way for journalists like him....balls like steel..... different story if camera wasn't recording lol

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Live by the Sword die by the Sword..This like any war, had no rules..Sensless..Rip to all the victims ☮️

[@jackietreehorn5561]

A gun you mean

[@patrickgorman5461]

​@@jackietreehorn5561 ?

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@patrickgorman5461 no swords in war nowadays.... taking the piss

[@animula6908]

You sound like you’ve never been in an actual war.

[@invisibleman4827]

"This like any war had no rules" So the Geneva Convention doesn't exist? Or Human rights in international law according to the UN? Or perhaps you'd like to be able to rape captive women because of this "any war has no rules" 🐂💩?

[@loulou7963]

What was he doing out there in the very heartland like that taking such massive risks in such a dangerous place and deliberately going out of his way to draw attention to himself like that ? He had a deathwish surely ? He was so murky with so many stories about him that I always wonder exactly who he was working for and where his loyalties truly lay ?

[@patkearney9320]

He just underestimated his would be victims because he was there to make victims and he got out foxed brave man he was, but he dropped the ball.

[@friotaiocht101]

There's nothing to look for or find because it just isn't there . There's no body it's been disposed of period.

[@tangerinedreamer50]

The man got to complacent. A little tip I was given growing up learn songs from both sides and have friends from both sides

[@ATroubledLand]

Put yourself in their shoes , I was always told that. I like everyone grew up on one side but I always put myself in their shoes , how I would look at certain events from the other side. If more did that, it would have been a much better place.

[@michaelgallagher6771]

I wonder if this much effort has been extended for the murders of many Republican young men this was war people die in war R I P

[@stevebaker6711]

A very sad story that will probably never be solved. Thank the Lord the worst of them days are over. RIP.

[@patkearney9320]

The dogs even know who and why he was killed there’s no mystery the whole pub was told to watch him, his number plates were known by all.

[@waynescales7231]

They were the toughest an dedicated because they were a tightknit village with units made up of family members brothers cousins that's why those from south Armagh were so successful cause they weren't squealing on each other an they trusted each other with there lives different story in Belfast an other areas coz a lot of them were British agents.

[@davehopkin9502]

If you think there was no infiltration of both the South Armagh and the other rural IRA Brigades you are dreaming, yes the Belfast Brigade was the most compromised but touts existed in all areas

[@waynescales7231]

@@davehopkin9502 Goway you yer defo orange 🍊 stop with yer propaganda bullshit

[@johnkennedy972]

@@davehopkin9502 wrong south Armagh brigade was and is still a great republican county of there own 🇮🇪32

[@davehopkin9502]

@@johnkennedy972 Perhaps you should actually read my comment - I refuted the claim there were no informers in South Armagh, there certainly were, but that did not stop not being one of the most republican counties along with Fermanagh

[@Hartley_Hare]

@@johnkennedy972 This is appalling, romanticised cobblers. I don't give two hoots about Ireland, but the sectarians on both sides are absolutely, utterly barking mad. Everyone's private army was, as is, corrupt and full of pathetic chancers.

[@goalltheway-pm8xs]

So a member of the British army, found in possession of a paramilitary adorned hanky: is innocent in itself, really Donal? Because to me, that could prove to be a show in its own.

[@GAME4WAR]

What a gigantic Propaganda piece. They made this guy look like an angel and an unexperienced guy. In reality he was a killer and a War Criminal who served in Ireland for 4 years. Every time his unit rotated out of Ireland he would switch units to stay working in Ireland. He worked with the Ulster terrorist groups armed them,trained them and gave then orders and prepared their attacks. He himself assassinated IRA member including John Francis Green whim he boasted about murdering. The guys should not have felt guilty about taking him out. They hit the jackpot when they took him out.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

As an Irish nationalist the British clandestine operatives after WW2 was pretty good..some shit they pulled on the Nazis was genius to be fair...so they had lots of practice and resources

[@guywithhisownopinion]

What utter nonsense.

[@robertfalconscott7039]

Maybe a bit flamboyant, by all accounts. a very brave man, regardless!

[@arthurgoodness7865]

Brave how? He put himself into a situation that he could not walk away from. Stupidity cost him his life.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@arthurgoodness7865 death wish more like...even now outsiders in south Armagh stick out like a sore thumb

[@overlook237]

This is fascinating. I only know a small amount about Capt Nairac after reading about him in a former SAS members memoirs. Definitely a lot of shady stuff going on in the Troubles and who knows what he was mixed up in.

[@jameslarkin8494]

Murder of innocent Nationalist/Republicans was his mix. Cry me a river. He's long gone and rightly so.

[@rogerduncan2603]

Like several other "disappeared" he probably went through a slaughterhouse grinder. The bodies usually can't be found because of their final moments.

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

@@rogerduncan2603 Bless.......

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

Shady stuff doesn't even come close to describing it.........Listen to James English interview the IRA Yank guy..........Eye opening.........MI5 were up to their necks in it................

[@rogerduncan2603]

@@f.dmcintyre4666 after the extensive amount of pain the disappeared would have gone through, it probably was a "blessing" for them.

[@martinjamessmith1045]

The gates of Hell will be open for all killers who murder it will be your first and last port of call ....

[@paudsmcmack3117]

Imagine being so into yourself to take sucha risk....

[@jb-wy8go]

Typical boggy remark

[@paudsmcmack3117]

@j b analyze the situation. He was British and dark skinned.. He thought he was able to go into a country bar and pretend to be Irish from West Belfast? I never walk into a pub in Sandy Row and say, "I'm Paddy and I want a pint." I've had no military training. Common bloody sense especially for a military man then.

[@dashingeduardosuarez]

@@jb-wy8go Yeah it's not actually, it's what anyone with a half functioning brain would conclude. 'Oh hello everyone, I'm Oirish and I want a Guinness placed into my non-white hand. Wait, what are you doing? Whyyyyy don't you believe me?!' 🤣🤣🤣

[@heartofjesusdj]

@@paudsmcmack3117Nairac had a bit of an Asian or Polynesian look to him. What did he think would happen?

[@anthonysmith9920]

Brought up in the 1970s, Northern England and was mesmerised by the news stories most nights of the week, so my question is, what proof os there that, he was not executed but simply dissapeared.

[@bastogne315]

By aliens or was it a life insurance job??

[@rule3036]

Crilley ? Any relative of Father Ted I wonder?😮

[@williamkelly9859]

Nairac did and intended to do fatal things to republicans what is the story?

[@JohnZokas-hf3qw]

Typical local bully’s in a dodgy pub

[@mack2183]

A walter mitty thought he could walk into a irish bar and blend in even people in that bar said his accent wasn't good and the said he was undercover probably followed back to bessbrook so they knew he was a undercover soldier

[@Puppy-ew4be]

Who said the war was over?

[@goalltheway-pm8xs]

Modelled himself on Tony Ball, has Tony not been seen either in almost 40 years?

[@gerardhenry5501]

He is still in the three steps singing Danny boy .

[@goalltheway-pm8xs]

So Donal, excepts it was a war?

[@ogrebattle22763]

A UVF embroidered handkerchief found in his belongings.... what a surprise.... LOL... not shocking at all to me.... not one bit...

[@colinstewart1432]

For somebody living undercover, that actually makes sense. Going into a Republican bar with that doesn't. Running risks just for the sake of it seems like madness

[@ononewheellad]

Fake news, you are getting carried away wi yourself now. 🙈

[@guy4469]

There was a documentry about 5 years ago about soldiers maybe SAS going out in a yellow cortina and a hillman hunter at night in plane clothes ,shooting people on the streets at night around the falls and divis . and i cant find it now maybe its been removed .

[@ATroubledLand]

MRF - It is on the channel here guy - have a flick back

[@Spook2431NYC]

I'll never understand why ppl would say a word to a reporter trespassing on their private properly knocking at their door...

[@ATLmodK]

They don’t, the reporter knows he, or she will not get an answer, but it must have been seen as dramatic when BBC did it.

[@ATLmodK]

And if I had been Martin McGuiness at the time I would not have granted any more interviews to any reporter from BBC tabloid programs. He might not have.

[@jb-wy8go]

Unless he was "trespassing " on prodies door, that would have been alright. Do you know what the word bigot means? Don't look it up in a dictionary look in a mirror

[@michaeleire6951]

Captain nervewreck as he was known in IRA magazine funny cartoon

[@joanofarc708]

What was he thinking

[@kevinwhelan9607]

It's ironic Nairac was a Catholic, indeed attended the "Catholic Eton" of Ampleforth College in Yorkshire.

[@papaann4]

Sheer arrogance was his downfall.

[@guy4469]

If this guy was only 25 and looked very fresh with nice nails and skin out off university he would have stood out a mile . I know a seargant about 34 maybe 37 looked like a farmer ruff as fuck scruffy as you would have thought he was atramp not a squadie somedays and pissed aswell but he was well on it he was no fool .

[@jimooky7113]

A narcissist in the unit is no good and will get spotted amongst proper men.. from either side.

[@alastairwest5200]

Escape and evasion needs to be more thorough...

[@richiemurphy9783]

His family from Mauritius a British colony up until 1992.. strange background ..fool didn't do his homework and ended up in a meat grinder rumor has it 😮

[@ATLmodK]

Since he is likely to have organized the Dublin Monaghan bombing deaths, as well as the Miami Showband massacre, it is hard to see his death as murder. More a tactical goal for the IRA. It’s sad that he had to die and sadder still that he had to kill.

[@ernstvanstangl1048]

I always hoped he wasn't the well spoken English accent those lads heard. May they RIP.

[@stephenburns7061]

so killing is a tactical goal?

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@stephenburns7061 newsflash genius....it's a tactical goal in every conflict in history, and sadly always innocent people are the majority of casualties

[@stephenburns7061]

@@jackietreehorn5561 to ms Jackie ok think.and say your peace about wateva but

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@stephenburns7061 ok Stephanie!

[@paddycampbell8183]

He's not dead he went on the run just 😂

[@JohnZokas-hf3qw]

Brave reporter

[@1442GlennLane]

For a QC to comment not caring where his body is, or what happened to it, his attitude stinks. What about closure for his family? 35:37

[@donaldstewart9827]

It has been suggested that he was working with a UVF sectarian murder gang and was involved in the Miami showband killings and many more sectarian murders.

[@mito88]

is nairac an irish name?

[@cliffordcook1165]

Adams knows we're he is ask him.

[@paddycowhey3406]

great doco. very interesting. hard to feel any sympathy for Nairac tho.

[@edwarde.canavan5126]

Ask your own people who gave up his name, why ? Because he went on his own

[@Packyboy]

A Chancer, Who took one chance to many. Plain and simple.

[@jb-wy8go]

Hey paddy I bet it turned you on the way he died? Did it give you a real turn on.

[@Packyboy]

@@jb-wy8go ha ha ha

[@truthsearcher596]

You can't give back a tree that's been through a wood chipper and then the sawdust used for animal bedding. When there's nothing to hand back, there's nothing to hand back.

[@billmcintosh3555]

Read somewhere that he could have been a double agent...still alive ??

[@sirtompo2]

Play silly games get silly prizes. Brave but ultimately a fool

[@johanakermyr1437]

Sad about Robert Nairac, if he had only stayed in his own home land. It would have saved his life.

[@wayneabel5421]

You mean the British isles ...

[@ATLmodK]

He is thought by many to be guilty of astonishingly cruel attacks against innocent victims

[@Wellbeingprogram]

Liam Townsend was a very good friend of my great uncle (Patrick Harte) my uncle used to go and see him every week when Liam was in prison, when my uncle passed away in 2006. Liam was in charge of the funeral and handed the Irish flag over to my family. Robert plotted the bombing on the famous Irish band that killed a few people, yes he was a very brave man…..if only he didn’t go to that pub things would be very different. I’m English, my grandfather was born in south Armagh, but I don’t agree with what the British did. RIP to all the lives lost both sides of the troubles

[@RobertK1993]

@@wayneabel5421 Nah stop being British isles in 1921

[@stephen-we4pn]

now they have flooded us with millions of muslims with endless wars in middle east

[@mod0049]

Enemy combatant simply put got rid of like many others.

[@andynoble4948]

With Adam's and McGuiness now passed and so many others, it's time someone,even anonymously put his family out of their misery

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Adams still alive 🤣

[@barryhamilton7845]

Yeah Gerry Adams is still alive and he'll be in his mid 70s.

[@Oncewasdonka]

Dont tell Adams he's dead.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@Oncewasdonka hell wake up in shock

[@mb-vf3qb]

😂

[@andrewcornford2306]

Was he SAS or C14 DET ?

[@colinstewart1432]

Nobody knows.

[@thomasshepard6030]

He was definitely C14 DET

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Not too smart....what did he think was gonna happen

[@noellambe5845]

@@colinstewart1432 oh yes they do,he served in britain s dirty war machine in ireland.sadly for him you live by the gun you ---------------------------------

[@simoncampbell4933]

Same thing really.

[@OzoneGoat]

Nairac. Strange name. Sounds like a brand of dog-food.

[@owencampbell8799]

I would say he was an alcoholic. Lost his mind.

[@johnphelan6623]

Good enough for him .........but give his people back his remains.

[@dowdallerno1]

playing both sides, and became a liability.

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

Brave but stupid as private Fraser said of captain Mainwaring. I don't mean that in a disparaging way, it is unfortunately what he was that night, Nevertheless, he was a brave man.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

No brave and stupid two different things....sent to his death and stupid to take the order

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

@@jackietreehorn5561 There’s hee haw evidence that he was there on an order.

[@mikeymc3094]

The guy in the door way ad more an American accent than the guy who’d ran away to America

[@jackietreehorn5561]

he was in America too

[@williamkelly9859]

You are talking unfortunately about an eejit

[@pauljones8218]

was capt nairac in the sas ?

[@PokeEyeSlapSlap]

No, never was. Most probably was in the Det, 14 Intelligence Company.

[@pauljones8218]

@@PokeEyeSlapSlap cheers for that

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@PokeEyeSlapSlap wasn't too intelligent.... especially in place like sa

[@PokeEyeSlapSlap]

@@jackietreehorn5561 a whole lot braver than yourself though…….

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@PokeEyeSlapSlap yes probably was, never said I was brave but big difference between brave and stupid.....his superiors sent him to his death and didn't give a flying fuck id say

[@windowman929]

Did you here the one about the undercover British soldier, doing Irish accents in Armagh 😅

[@redroseofsummer2979]

😂

[@jackietreehorn5561]

Like dad's army

[@WO2Royalengineersretired]

He was the .. officer .. at the checkpoint when the Miami showband where stopped and murdered 100%

[@liverpoolscottish6430]

No. He was not involved in the Miami SB massacre. The physical description of the, 'officer,' from one of the survivors of the massacre doesn't come close to that of Nairac himself. Furthermore, when the massacre occurred, Nairac was on a training course on the UK mainland, he wasn't even in NI. In addition. Nairac was Catholic, and his sympathy leaned towards the Catholic community. Read, 'Death Of A Hero,' which completely debunks the BS about Nairac being involved in the Miami SB incident. It suits the republican narrative to associate Nairac with that murderous act. He had no involvement and those who knew him very well have spoken out over the years and stated clearly that Nairac would never have associated himself with such a mindless and brutal murderous act. He was an Oxford educated, intelligent, honourable individual- not a mindless thug intent on stoking sectarian violence. It's apparent that you have scant knowledge of Nairac, his Catholic upbringing and his great love for Ireland itself. He was guilty of being naive in that he thought he could genuinely make a difference in a positive way. If you have any vestige of 'evidence' to support your accusation, please feel free to elucidate. Simply stating he was involved doesn't constitute 'evidence.'

[@WO2Royalengineersretired]

@@liverpoolscottish6430 believe me he was !

[@WO2Royalengineersretired]

@@liverpoolscottish6430 he was a frequent visitor to Masserine bks in Antrim ! The SAS had a Nissan hit there near the loch . Wether he was in NI at the time is conjecture ??? But he was there ?

[@fintonmainz7845]

​@@liverpoolscottish6430self contradictory bullshit. The Miami s b victims were Catholics and Protestants.

[@douglastaggart9360]

@Ex Army but not Barmy he wasn't in tbe SAS and he 100% wasn't there.

[@dannyboy5517]

Nairac has now been outed as the undercover murderer he was

[@kevinmorse8814]

The IRA might have come to move his body. I believe they disposed of his Body in the same area in which he was shot . To take the Body Away in a vehicle would be to much of a risk . The story of the meat grinder was a double bluff

[@ianjarrett2724]

So, 25yrs after the end of the conflict, how come the IRA still won't reveal and repatriate his remains?

[@jackietreehorn5561]

​@@ianjarrett2724 he wasn't the only one sadly

[@jackoshea7668]

Poor guy Capt Nairac RIP .McCormick is haunted by the murder.All over what 🇮🇪🇬🇧

[@mikeymc3094]

This is bull shit Nairac was murdered by his own ppl He was disgusted with wot he’d seen the FRU an SAS did over there an they were scared of him blowing the whistle

[@arthurgoodness7865]

The MoD named him in documents as probably been the English officer present when the Miami Showband were attacked and murdered by the UDR/UVF. The documents were released to the families in December 2021.

[@jacquiewalton1355]

@mikeymc3094 And the earth is flat !

[@markjohnston7869]

Nairac was clearly brave but he was also clearly stupid. If he wanted this life he should have applied to the SAS and been trained by them or applied to join one of the Military Intelligence Units serving in Northern Ireland. To just go off on a whim was clearly very naive of him. He should have known better. It is sad that this naivety led to such a tragic end but it was never a game in Northern Ireland during the troubles and he should have known that.

[@billlawrence8520]

Concerning cross border ops, totally justified. If you give a guerilla a safe haven (republic of Ireland) you give him a victory.

[@deniseblades41]

I read a book about Nairac, a brave man but way out of his depth and wasn't SAS, plus they wouldn't go in known pub single handed withe no back up, suicidal, Dennis

[@andyprince6581]

The thing that gives me comfort is in block of ice under judas in hell is martin maguinnes with a space for specially reserved for gerry Adams

[@jacquiewalton3022]

Don't you have to have a naiive belief in Heaven and Hell for that to have any credence ?

[@williambeck1574]

Along with lizzie,thatcher and the 18 murdering British bastards done in at Warrenpoint BOOM BOOM 💥🇮🇪