GunPlot: 05 - Deeper

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RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The hunt for guns leads to a meeting in Antwerp with a shady arms dealer. The Minister for Defence issues a directive that could lead to an invasion of Northern Ireland. A group of men wait at Dublin Port for a shipment of arms to arrive.

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0:00.0	It's the 25th of March 1970.
0:07.0	A ship is en route from Antwerp in Belgium to Dublin.
0:13.0	The ship is the MV city of Dublin.
0:19.0	It's 7am and Captain James Kelly is at the quayside. is the MV City of Dublin.
0:24.6	It's 7am and Captain James Kelly is at the quayside.
0:30.3	Captain Kelly knows that there's an important cargo on the ship.
0:33.5	The cargo is listed as metal plate,
0:38.5	but that's a cover name for illegal guns, ammunition and bulletproof vests.
0:45.8	The ship arrives and docks.
0:52.7	But when the cargo is unloaded, Captain Kelly doesn't see what he's expecting to see.
1:25.0	This is episode five of gunplot. I'm not with a truth in the written word. I'm Nicolene Greer and together with my colleague Ronan Kelly and the RTE documentary in one team.
1:27.4	We are unpicking the stories that make up one of the biggest political scandals
1:31.4	Ireland has ever seen, the arms crisis of 1970.
1:39.1	And remember, you can catch Gunplot the TV documentary on the RTE player.
1:43.6	We live in trouble time. you can catch Gunplot the TV documentary on the RTE player.
1:49.8	We'll come back to Dublin Port later.
1:52.9	But first, let's talk about how we got there.
2:00.3	We left due in December 1969 after those botched attempts to buy guns in the UK.
2:03.1	And so far, nobody on a state salary has made direct attempts to buy guns. Sure, the money they'd been using to try to buy guns
2:09.1	was from that £100,000 government fund given to Minister for Finance Charles Hahi. But the people
2:15.7	travelling to the UK and the US in pursuit of weapons were people
2:19.3	like John Kelly and Jock Hockey, people associated with the Republican movement and the IRA.
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