John Crawley

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1,569 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Apr

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You're James Bond.

And they can play these guys and play their personalities.

So one thing that really, really, that surprised me that some people thrive on being informers.

Another thing about being an informer

for some people is in a perverse way, being an informer, but not being known to be an informer can really enhance your status in some communities.

Because say you're a known IRA man in an area and you're an informer.

So you know you're not gonna be shot with a sash.

You know loyalists aren't gonna take you out of it.

And you know that if the IUC are going to get anybody shot, they're going to send them to somebody else's door, not yours, right?

So that gives people a bit of swagger then.

It gives a bit of swagger because they know they're uncouchable.

But that swagger is seen by other people.

They think, geez, that guy's got balls.

You know what I mean?

In a strange way, it kind of enhances their prestige.

And for a lot of people, there are people who will betray the IRA

to actually keep the prestige of being known as an IRA man.

The prestige of being an IRA man means more to them than what the IRA stands for, than the IRA goals.

They'll actually betray the IRA so they can stay being known as an IRA man, to get the prestige that comes up.

It's very bizarre.

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