andrew
Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:45:46 +0000
Secret police, Repression, Library, Interview, Garda Research Institute

I still remember my first time. It was a fine sunny morning on the Easter bank holiday weekend in 1991. I had just dropped my girlfriend off at an inter-city coach and was walking back past the bank on College Green when a voice behind me said ‘Stop, I want to talk to you for a minute’. Presuming it was someone trying to sell me something, I waved them off, but then the guy in the badly fitting suit walked around in front of me, held out some sort of ID card and announced he was Special Branch.

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