Tag: Jack Lynch

• 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

• Nest of Spies (Webbook).

  

  1. Introduction. Part 1: A bloodsoaked start, after which cooperation was achieved. 2. From the elimination of the Cairo Gang to intelligence cooperation. 3. Spying on a Zionist TD for MI5. 4. Cooperation during the IRA’s Operation Harvest. Part 2. An aristocratic spy ring. 5. ‘It was as simple as picking up a phone.’ 6.…

  Covert History Ireland

  23 August 2025

  Crinnion, Patrick, FitzGerald, Garret, Garvey, Ned, Haughey, Charles, IRA, MI6, Oldfield, Maurice

  Andrew Ward, Arms Crisis, Charles Haughey, Colin Wallace, Colm Browne, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Craig Smellie, David Neligan, Earl of Granard, Erskine Childers, Fred Holroyd, Frederick Boland, G2, Garret FitzGerald, General Sean Collins-Powell, Gerry Jones, Guy Liddel, IRA, IRD, Jack Lynch, James Gibbons, John D. Moore, John Kelly, John McCoy, John Peck, John Wyman, Larry Wren, Liam Cosgrave, mi5, mi6, Michael Daly, Ned Garvey, Neil Blaney, Patrick Crinnion, Patrick Malone, Peter Berry, Peter Evans, Rita Dudley, Robert Briscoe, Robin Jackson, Ronnie Burroughs, RUC, Sir Andrew Gilchrist, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, Sir John Maffey, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, The Badger, Thomas Coyne, Thomas Mullen, Tom Conaty, UVF, Vincent Heavin, Virgil Randolph III, WebBook

• MI6 smeared John Hume. He was also placed under MI5 surveillance in Dublin with the assistance of the Gardaí. [WebBook]

  

  An ebook by David Burke. An official portrait of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume is to be unveiled in Westminster today. A sculpture of him was put on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this year. The new portrait by Colin Davidson – which is magnificent – will hang in Portcullis…

  Covert History Ireland

  7 November 2024

  Haughey, Charles, MI5, MI6

  Alan English, Albert ‘Ginger’ Baker, Bill Clinton, Bloody Sunday, Brian Crozier, British-Irish Association, Cardinal Conway, Cover Up, Dame Daphne Park, David Astor, Denis Payne, Ebook, Edward Heath, Edward Short, Garret FitzGerald, Hans Welser, Hugh Mooney, Ian Cameron, IPU, IRD, Jack Lynch, John Hume, John Wyman, joseph de burca, Ken McCallum, Kenneth Littlejohn, Larry Wren, LG, mi5, mi6, Michael Daly, Michael Lillis, Michael McCaul, Richard Moore, Seamus Mallon, Sean Donlon, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, Sir Maurice Oldfield, T. E. Utley, T. G. Baker, Ulster Workers Council, WebBook

• The Spy in Leinster House. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris cannot be asked to investigate due to a conflict of interest. Harris used to work with MI5. By David Burke.

  

  1. The British agent in Leinster House. The Joint Support Group (JSG) ran British agents in the Republic of Ireland for British military and civilian intelligence agencies during the Troubles. A former British military intelligence agent known by the pseudonym, Sam Rosenfeld, has alleged that a senior Irish government figure has served as an agent…

  Covert History Ireland

  22 December 2022

  British Army, MI5

  Arms Crisis, BND, Charles Haughey, Charlie Flanagan, Chinook, CIA, Craig Smellie, Drew Harris, G2, Garret FitzGerald, IRD, Irish Times, Jack Lynch, JIC, John Moore, John Peck, Joint Support Group, Leo Varadkar, mi6, Neil Blaney, Peter Keeley, PSNI, RUC, Sam Rosenfeld, SDECE, Smithwick, Virgil Randolph III