• Irish priest turned arms dealer for the IRA with Jennifer O’Leary

  • Sep 28 2023
  • Length: 45 mins
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Irish priest turned arms dealer for the IRA with Jennifer O’Leary

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  • Fr. Patrick Ryan a Pallotine Father returns from missionary work in East Africa to East London in the late 1960’s just as ‘The Troubles’ so called begin in Northern Ireland. Discover how this complex character came to take off the collar to buy arms form Col. Ghadaffi in Libya and ultimately use his engineering mind to join the dots and see how a simple parking timer could solve one of the IRA’s biggest bomb making problems, the own goals! Journalist Jennifer O’Leary had exclusive access to The Padre as he recounts his part in The Thirty Years War.,

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