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The Spy Who

The Spy Who Jailed the Omagh Bomb Plotter | Blowing up the peace | 2

The Spy Who

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4.6891 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As the Real IRA moves to derail Northern Ireland’s fragile peace with bombs, MI5 asks spy trucker David Rupert to get close to its ringleader Michael McKevitt.

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0:00.0

Be advised.

0:05.5

This episode of The Spy Who contains depictions of violence.

0:14.2

June 1998, Derry, Northern Ireland.

0:21.0

Mickey Donnelly dumps a plastic bag with milk on its kitchen table.

0:26.8

Feckin' R, you see. I can't even buy groceries in peace.

0:30.9

He's angry after an altercation with the Royal Auster Constabulary

0:34.1

at a roadblock on the way home from the convenience store.

0:40.3

Donnelly is one of the 14 hooded men.

0:44.5

Back in 1971, as a volunteer in the provisional IRA,

0:48.8

he was rounded up by the British Army, held without trial and tortured for a week.

0:54.5

The incident made him a hero in Republican circles and an ongoing target for Northern Ireland's

0:59.6

police force.

1:05.6

His wife puts the milk away and addresses her three primary school-age daughters.

1:11.9

Bright girls, ten minutes of TV, then bed.

1:15.6

Their grown-up son, shouts from the living room,

1:18.3

where he's watching TV with his girlfriend.

1:20.5

Hey, Dad, we just saw you on TV calling Martin McGuinness, a traitor.

1:28.1

Donnelly ignores his wife's worried look as they settle onto the couch.

1:33.6

And so he is.

1:34.9

I inducted that bastard into the provisional IRA,

1:38.3

and now he's selling us all down the river.

1:41.6

Donnelly's status, as one of the hood of men,

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