Fin Dwyer
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3,225 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard yesterday
Fin Dwyer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've already talked about how this is a very small community in many ways.
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People are related to each other.
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All these people have connections between the accused, the people who testify for the state and the victims, the the Joyce family.
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But as you say, they move quickly, they arrest several people in the community.
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Do the police have a working theory and they're going, Okay, well, if this was the motive, that guy, that guy, that guy, they're going to be guilty, or is it
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As you've said there, pretty much everyone wants this case of that the time the British authorities are very fearful in the aftermath of the Phoenix Park murders.
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Also for Irish nationalists, I think there's f it's fair to say there's a degree of embarrassment that this happens and that this, you know, sheds poorly on what would have been seen at the time as the quote unquote Irish character, our ability to rule ourselves.
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So everyone wants it done fast.
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But is there a is there a theory that the police work off of
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Or is it just grab the usual suspects?
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Rattle them and see what comes out.
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It might be worth just kind of parsing that apart because you know, at the start we talked about the nature of the community in Mount Trasna.
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Galway City where they might have expected to have been tried is, I don't know, it was two days walk probably from Mount Trasn.
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It's an added distance, but there's a degree of familiarity.
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Dublin, it is worth saying at this point, it's a completely different world at this you know, and I I think often we think of Dublin as this impoverished city, but at the same time, Dublin by the late nineteenth century has public street lighting.
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It has a lot of you know, a a big public transport system.
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And what I'm getting at here is for these men coming into that city, now obviously they're in prison in the city, but it's a completely alien world.
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And we'll get
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onto the courthouse and the court proceedings, but they're very much in
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A place they're not familiar with and I
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