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Book review: The Kidnapping a vivid account of Don Tidey incident and silence that surrounded it
The authors argue convincingly that the 1983 abduction and rescue, in which two gardaí died, was a defining moment in the Troubles
Lovely Leitrim was a number one hit for the country and western singer Larry Cunningham in 1965. For the security forces who had to trek through that county’s boggy terrain in search of an IRA kidnap victim 18 years later, however, it evoked quite different feelings. “When all this is over, I’m going to shoot Larry Cunningham,” one Garda detective moaned. “Lovely Leitrim my eye.”
That joke did not stay funny for long. While the ...
