S2 Episode 12: The Mysterious Eviction

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Strange things are happening in Co. Roscommon, where a controversial eviction has set the internet on fire. Who were the unidentified men who ejected an elderly family from their farm house last week? Why do ex-British soldiers appear to be involved? And where do the rumours stop and facts begin? Naomi and Tim uncover the dramatic story of this eviction and its deep historical resonances in the Irish cultural consciousness. They trace out the facts of what exactly happened in the townland of Falsk, how it inspired a vicious vigilante counter-attack that has gripped national headlines – and why you should pay very close attention to what happens next. This episode includes exclusive unreported revelations about security guards from Northern Ireland who carried out the eviction. Trust us, you’re going to want to listen to this one.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hi everyone and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast.
0:41.2	Hi everybody. We have a great episode for you today that we put together as quick as we could
0:46.0	in response to rapidly developing current events, evictions.
0:50.3	Yes, Naomi, now you summoned together the two of us at the very last minute to make this very
0:55.8	quick episode, so why don't you tell us why? Basically, Tim, history is back, history never went away,
1:01.5	history is happening right now in Roscommon. Okay, all right. So Ross Common, of course, in the
1:07.9	North Midlands of Ireland, and if you haven't seen the news,
1:11.0	some dramatic events took place there over the last week. The McGahn family, who are two brothers,
1:16.9	aged 58 and 64, and their sister in her 50s also, were evicted from their farmhouse home in
1:23.7	Falsk, and that's near the town of Strokes Town in Roscommon. I spent the past few days
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