A stunning period in Irish life comes to a climax. Four men stand before the High Court, charged with conspiring to import arms and ammunition illegally into Ireland. A Government Minister, an Army officer, a Belgian businessman and a proud IRA man. If found guilty, jail beckons. The entire country holds its breath.

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Companion TV documentary to this series, also titled GunPlot, is available via RTÉ Player (Worldwide)

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

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The country is about to wake up to some shocking news. The plan to secretly import weapons is blown wide open and the dominoes are about to start falling with devastating consequences for some of those involved.

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Companion TV documentary to this series, also titled GunPlot, is available via RTÉ Player (Worldwide)

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.

For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, visit http://www.rte.ie/gunplot

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Attempts continue to bring black market sub-machine guns and pistols into Ireland. But when an Irish policeman is shot on the streets of Dublin, everything changes. And the forces seeking to undo the entire plot to import guns are growing stronger.

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Companion TV documentary to this series, also titled GunPlot, is available via RTÉ Player (Worldwide)

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.

For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, visit http://www.rte.ie/gunplot

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The hunt for guns leads to a meeting in Antwerp with a shady arms dealer. The Minister for Defence issues a directive that could lead to an invasion of Northern Ireland. A group of men wait at Dublin Port for a shipment of arms to arrive. Official Ireland is getting in deeper and deeper and deeper.

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Companion TV documentary to this series, also titled GunPlot, is available via RTÉ Player (Worldwide)

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.

For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, visit http://www.rte.ie/gunplot

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It’s October 1969 and the truth is becoming murky. A plan to buy weapons begins to come together. And a group of men go shopping for guns. But what happens when the arms dealer they meet is actually a foreign spy? 

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Companion TV documentary to this series, also titled GunPlot, is available via the RTÉ Player (Worldwide)

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.

For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, visit http://www.rte.ie/gunplot

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A secret plan by members of the Irish Government to import guns into Ireland begins to come together. But forces are gathering in the wings to scupper it. Will the plot survive? 

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Companion TV documentary to this series, also titled GunPlot, is available via the RTÉ Player (Worldwide)

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.

For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, visit www.rte.ie/gunplot

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As tensions continue to rise, the Irish Army is hurriedly moved to the border of Northern Ireland. Is this a sign that Ireland is going to take on the might of the British Empire? One Irish government minister hopes so. And his name is Neil Blaney.

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Companion TV documentary to this series, also titled GunPlot, is available via the RTÉ Player (Worldwide)

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.

For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, visit www.rte.ie/gunplot

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An Irish Army Captain goes on holidays – a strange kind of holiday. To a city where he knows there is likely to be ‘trouble’. He arrives as a three-day street battle, now known as 'the Battle of the Bogside', begins. And it changes everything (Ep1/8). Released weekly from Monday April 12, 2021. To listen/subscribe to this entire series, search for ‘GunPlot’ from wherever you get your podcasts.

Companion TV documentary to this series airs Wednesday Apr 28th @9.30pm on RTÉ One.

Credits:

GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer.

Sound Design by Damian Chennells

Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team.

Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments.

For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, visit www.rte.ie/gunplot

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As new evidence emerges, we return to the first victim that Kieran Kelly claimed – to where it all began. A train. A death. A story.

The Nobody Zone is a collaboration between RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear productions in Denmark.

For more, visit rte.ie/thenobodyzone

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The Nobody Zone is written and narrated by Tim Hinman.

Storyline and production is by Tim Hinman and Krister Moltzen.

Original idea, research and recordings are by Robert Mulhern, Nicoline Greer and Liam O'Brien with production assistance from Sarah Blake, Donal O'Herlihy, Tim Desmond, Ronan Kelly and Michael Lawless.

Special thanks to genealogist Damian O’Sullivan and Leo Magee in Pearse Street Library, Dublin

If you wish to join the social media conversation around this podcast, please use #thenobodyzone, or visit rte.ie/thenobodyzone

And if you'd like to comment or share any information you might have on this story, we'd love to hear from you - email us [email protected]

Original music for the series is by Tim Hinman.

The title music is the song 'Missing you' written by Jimmy McCarthy and performed by Christy Moore.

Graphics, marketing and press by John Kilkenny, Laura Beatty, Amy O'Driscoll, Nigel Wheatley, Frederik Nielbo, Jilly McDonough, Ellen Leonard, Bren Murphy and Anna Joyce. Illustrations by Alex Williamson. Distribution support from Acast.

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