Tag: gerry adams

• Dick Walsh, obstacle to the peace process.

  

  Introduction. It says a lot about The Irish Times that a bust of Dick Walsh – the most revered journalist in The Irish Times pantheon – takes pride of place in the foyer of paper. Dick Walsh was an adviser to Cathal Goulding, chief of staff of the Official IRA. Between 1970 and 1983 the…

  Covert History Ireland

  10 October 2026

  ARMS CRISIS, Haughey, Charles, IRA, Irish Times

  Arms Crisis, Cathal Goulding, Conor Brady, Dick Walsh, gerry adams, Jack Lynch, Official IRA

• Hi-tech.

  

  © Deirdre Younge 2025. ‘Fergus directs me around the streets of Omeath until we pull up outside a bungalow, “hang on there”, he says and strides inside purposefully. Seconds later, he emerges with someone called Johnny, a bomb making graduate. ‘”Follow us”, says Johnny, and we do, along the winding back roads around Carlingford Bay,…

  Covert History Ireland

  30 August 2025

  Gardai, IRA

  Éamon McGuire, Christina Reid, Danny McNamee, Deirdre Younge, Eamon Collins, gerry adams, Harry Breen, IRA, Jack Lynch, Major Peter Fursman, margaret thatcher, Martin Quigley, Maurice Oldfield, Peter Keeley, Richard Clark Johnson, RUC, SAS, Sean O’Callaghan, WebBook