StoryCast '21: Maverick reverend offers fresh insight into dangerous mission to disarm the IRA
Fifty years after initiating secret talks with armed republicans, Harold Good, 84, lifts the lid on one of the most mysterious acts in Northern Ireland's recent history - destroying the IRA's vast arsenal of weapons.
Wednesday 4 August 2021 18:46, UK
In September 2005, to counter British and Irish security services, Reverend Harold Good was ordered to leave behind his mobile phone and watch ahead of his transport to a top-secret IRA arms dump, somewhere in the Irish Republic.
Good, along with his Catholic counterpart, Father Alec Reid, was about to undertake the final leg of a personal journey that had played out against the backdrop of more than 30 years of death and destruction across Britain and Ireland.
His mission? To witness the IRA's destruction of its own vast arsenal of weapons - an arsenal that included a surface-to-air missile and deadly explosives, the like of which had devastated Canary Wharf in London and Warrington, just years earlier.
Reverend Good makes new disclosures about that secret mission in episode 11 of StoryCast '21, a Sky News podcast series telling 21 stories from the year 2000 to 2021.
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