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The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2018: Last year Northern Irish paramilitary Gary Haggarty pleaded guilty to hundreds of violent crimes, including many killings – while working for the British state. By Ian Cobain. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:35.6	My name is Ian Cobain, and I am the journalist who wrote
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0:43.5	It concerns the use of informers in Northern Ireland,
0:46.4	and the legacy of the long use of informers in Northern Ireland.
0:51.7	I've long had a fascination with Northern Ireland.
0:54.4	I've been travelling and working there since the mid-1980s.
0:57.9	I think it's the most fascinating place in the UK and beyond,
1:02.0	precisely because the question of whether it is or should be
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