Owen Sweeney
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248 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Owen Sweeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was made for the BBC, screened there late last year on RT this week on Wednesday.
at half past nine, watch it live or tape it or watch it back in the play or whatever takes your fancy there.
This is the Robert Nairach story.
He was the go-between, effectively, between the SAS and South Armagh and the RUC Special Branch.
As the brilliant first-person testimony, what I love about this, Derval, is it's not Belfast, it's not Derry, it's not an urban story.
It's very much kind of rural, Cross MacLennan, Hinterland, and even the go to the Mart.
And Robert Nairach was a singular character, and this is what I mean again.
There you go.
And so they're in the mart and he goes and he's spotted at the mart.
This guy wasn't trying to hide who he was or what he was up to.
He'd be up in a pub singing the Broad Black Brimmer and, you know, kind of putting on a Belfast accent and going down south.
And he was in the mart in Newry and he was spotted there by, because, you know, it's a local community who would be coming from South Armagh up to there for that big day.
And he had an overcoat on, he had wellies on and he had tied up with rope and stuff.
He was a touch of 007, they say.
Who was he really reporting to?
People are kind of asking those questions as well.
There's a lot going on there, do you know what I mean?
Don't give anything away.
What I really liked about this, and again from a production point of view for me, is the footage was of
regular life in 1970s, in the six counties in 1970s.
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