
The Good Listener Podcast
An interview podcast
Episodes
112 episodes
BRITAIN'S BIGGEST MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE ? | The Story Of The Birmingham 6 | Chris Mullin
For this week's episode I'm joined by ex-investigative journalist and MP, Chris Mullin, who though his efforts, was able to help free the falsely convicted Irishmen known as "the Birmingham 6".We speak about the sequence of events on th...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 109
•
1:02:09

JUSTICE FOR MY FATHER'S IRA M*RDER | Son Of Irish Prison Guard K*lled by IRA Tells His Story
This week I’m joined by Austin Stack, son of murdered Portlaoise Maximum Secruity Prison Officer, Brian Stack, who was shot and later died after a planned IRA attack in 1983.Austin tells us about the night his father was shot, what his ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 108
•
1:58:25

MEETING "THE DISAPPEARED" - Irish Priest Gives (Last?) Confession To M*rdered IRA Man, Joe Lynsky
This week I’m joined once again by Fr. Sean McManus, Fermanagh priest who shared with us the story of meeting IRA intel officer, Joe Lynsky prior to his eventual execution and the hands of his fellow Provos. Fr McManus didn’t know it a...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 107
•
31:13

MARTIN McGUINNESS & The DERRY IRA | Jon Trigg (Author of "Death In Derry") | The Troubles
For this episode I’m joined once again by author and ex-solider, Jon Trigg to speak about his new book “Death In Derry” which tells the story of the Derry IRA and it’s perpetual leader, Martin McGuinness.Jon joined us last year when he ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 106
•
3:09:51

Women Of The Troubles | B*mbers, Assassins & Victims| Martin Dillon, Author
For this episode I'm speaking with Martin Dillon, well renowned author and journalist who has spent his career writing about the conflict in the North of Ireland. Martin's latest book, "The Sorrow and The Loss" deals with the women of the troub...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 105
•
1:20:36

HUNTING DESSIE O'HARE, IRA Training Camps & The Irish Special Forces | Kevin McDonald, Ex Irish Army
My guest this week is ex Irish Defence Forces soldier Kevin McDonald. Kevin served in Irelands Special Forces during the conflict that rocked the island.Kevin tells us about his involvement in the one of the biggest man hunts in the sta...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 104
•
1:14:08

LOUGHLINISLAND MASSACRE | U.V.F , Collusion & Press Freedom |Trevor Birney
On June 18th 1994 while watching Ireland play in the World Cup, 6 completely innocent men were slaughtered by a loyalist paramilitary gunman who sprayed the bar with an assault rifle in an act of cold blooded sectarianism. Trevor ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 103
•
56:33

BANDIT COUNTRY & THE SOUTH ARMAGH IRA | Toby Harnden (Author Of "Bandit Country")
Toby Harnden is the author of one of the best-selling and well regarded books on the IRA and the troubles, “Bandit Country”. Toby’s book lifted the lid on the area where is was most dangerous to be a British soldier in during the conflict and t...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 102
•
2:42:48

NORTHERN IRELAND - "WHAT A BLOODY AWFUL COUNTRY" | How The Troubles Could Have Been Prevented
Kevin Meagher's book "What A Bloody Awful Country" examines the creation of the state we know as Northern Ireland and how the 100 plus years of existence as gone.We discuss the reasons for partition in the first place, the sectarian vio...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 101
•
1:19:36

IRA B*MBS, BOOBY-TRAPS & LOYALIST LEADERS | Violence In 1990s Belfast | Rob Millington
Rob Millington, ex-british army trooper, spent 6 months in Belfast during the final decade of the conflict that gripped the lives of anyone in the 6 counties.Rob talks to us almost getting caught in an IRA b*mb which was set up to blow ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 100
•
1:25:39

INSIDE THE 1980 IRA/INLA HUNGER STRIKE | Long Kesh Prisoner & Hunger Striker, John Nixon
John Nixon, ex-Offical IRA and INLA member begins this episode at the start of his second prison term in Long Kesh during which he would volunteer for the IRA/INLA Hunger Strike of 1980, led by Brendan “The Dark” Hughes.John speaks abou...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 99
•
2:28:56

PATROLLING BANDIT COUNTRY | South Armagh & Fermanagh IRA, Mortar Attacks & Mines | Ralph Brooker
Ralph Brooker served in the British army touring Fermanagh, Derry and the infamous South Armagh, better known as "Bandit Country".Having spent the majority of his time in rural, border areas Ralph recounts the British army's constant at...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 98
•
1:54:14

Mi6 SPY In Garda Special Branch | Patrick Crinnion & How Mi6 nearly Brought Down The Irish Govt.
David Burke’s most recent book “Puppet Masters” shines a light on mysterious case of Patrick Crinnion, the garda (Irish police officer) who was passing information to Mi6 while he was in the Gardai’s secretive intel department. Dav...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 97
•
1:00:22

Mi6 SPY In Irish Dept. of Justice Offices- How High Up Did The Corruption Go ? | David Burke
****Q&A COMING SOON SO PLEASE SUBMIT ANY QUESTIONS YOU'D LIKE ANSWERED IN THE COMMENTS****In a recent episode David Burke re-joined us to talk about the mysterious case of Garda Patrick Crinnion, a spy within the Garda Special Branc...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 98
•
51:03

INLA BLANKETMAN Tells The Inside Story of "BLANKET" & "NO-WASH" Protest | John Nixon - Part 2
In part 2 of my interviews with ex-official IRA & INLA member, John Nixon. In this episode we discussed some of the INLA’s most prolific operations as well as some of the organizations most well known members including Seamus Costello and D...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 96
•
1:06:06

IRA's GREATEST JAILBREAKS | The Troubles, War Of Independence & more | James Durney, Author
My guest for this week is James Durney, historian and author of “Jailbreak” which details the various “great escapes” perpetrated by Irish Republican prisoners from 1865 onwards into the 1980s.James tells us about the most daring and da...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 95
•
52:57

Policing The Troubles | East Tyrone, Belfast, Riots & Near-Death Experiences | Hilton McCabe, Ex-RUC
Hilton McCabe served in the RUC in both East Tyrone and Belfast during the second half of the conflict we know as “the troubles”. Hilton tells us about policing rural East Tyrone and the horror of cleaning up body-parts after the o...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 94
•
2:40:51

SOUTH ARMAGH AGENT HANDLER | Recruiting & Running Informants In BANDIT COUNTRY| Ex-FRU Handler
Ex-FRU agent handler "Will Britten" (alias) actively ran and recruited agents in South Armagh, one of the most dangerous places to be a British soldier during the conflict, in the 80s and is the author of "The Deadly Game". We speak in depth ab...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 93
•
2:34:26

Witnessing His Father's IRA M*rder | Alan Miles' Story, Son of H-Blocks Deputy Governor Albert Miles
In a recent episode I interviewed author Dan Lawton about his book focusing on the fallout from the murder of dept Governor, Albert Miles, of the infamous Maze Prison in November 1978 in which an innocent man was convicted.Alan Miles witnes...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 92
•
55:43

IRA's K*LLING FIELDS - The Story Of The EAST TYRONE IRA | Jon Trigg, Ex-British Army & Author
Jonathan Trigg’s book “Death In The Fields” examines, in great detail, the infamous East-Tyrone IRA and how this rural group complied some of the republican’s biggest wins and conversely, their most devastating losses.We examine the ear...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 91
•
1:48:13

EX-RUC SPECIAL BRANCH HANDLER Tells His Story | Informers, IRA & M*rder | William Matchett
William Matchett is an ex-RUC officer who spent years working in the secretive and murky world of informants and agents during his time in Special Branch while “the troubles” raged on.William shares with us his motivations for joining t...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 90
•
1:59:14

CATHOLIC PRIEST on Capitol Hill Fighting For IRISH FREEDOM | Fr. Sean McManus
**Sorry for the late upload my good people.. feel free to follow on YouTube where I'm a bit more on top of things**Fr Sean McManus hails from Co. Fermanagh but was sent, by his superiors in the Catholic, to America early in his career w...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 89
•
1:48:14

BATTLING THE IRA & LOYALISTS IN TROUBLES-ERA BELFAST | SAS & DET. SURVEILLANCE OPERATOR Mick Hawkes
Mick Hawkes is an ex-SAS soldier and 14th intel company (the Det.) operator who worked against the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland as part of his military career. Mick tells us about the daily ins and outs of ca...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 88
•
2:09:28

Being IRISH in Birmingham during IRA ENGLAND B*mbing Campaign | Dr. Michael Flavin
My guest this week is Dr Michael Flavin, child to Irish parents who grew up in Birmingham, England during the IRA’s bombing campaign in England during the troubles.Michael speaks to us about being a part of the Irish diaspora in England...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 87
•
1:05:13

INNOCENT MAN FRAMED for IRA M*RDER | How Kevin Barry Artt was falsely convicted & Escaped LONG KESH
Dan Lawton’s thrilling new book “The Hunted” explores the story of Kevin Barry Artt and how he was false-convicted of the IRA murder of deputy Maze prison governor, Albert Miles. We speak about the so-called “confession factory” Ca...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 85
•
50:52
