Patsy McGarry
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174 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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In his case, he had a chair.
He was put lying down on the ground with a chair on.
the legs of a chair in his hand and a guard sitting on that and they're spitting down at him.
They physically beat them.
He beat them up against these lockers, et cetera, that were in a particular room he was in.
They weren't just beaten in the tunnels.
They were beaten in the area of the Bridewell downstairs.
It's a very minor thing and it's something I've fallen into, a trap I've fallen into myself.
Branagh,
Irish for Walsh, or Welsh, is always spelt B-R-E-A-T-H-N-A-C-H.
And I've done it myself in articles, and he's checked me on this.
The Branachs, Oscar and his family, only spell the name without a H, as in the middle.
Correct.
But he spelled his name B-R-E-A-T-H-N-A-C-H on the confession he signed.
Just as an indication, another indication, that this is false.
And in the early 1970s period, I mean, we had a very, very strong government, a very, very powerful government.
strong minister for justice paddy cooney only died fairly recently and they were afraid of their lives that the ira were going to uh try to overthrow the government of the state as well as what they were doing in northern ireland the ira were liberally raiding banks etc down here to fund their campaign in northern ireland and this was another example of it because they did later claim responsibility for uh raiding the train the mail train in salons itself
So, I mean, they basically gave a license to the Gardaí, do whatever you must do where any of these Republican groups are concerned to keep them under control.
And that's what happened.
These men were mainly members of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, which would have been a hard nationalist.
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