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Published 11:00 13 Jun 2023 BST
"My legs buckled. I hit the chair and everything went into a spin in slow motion. “It's a terrible stigma. It's the worst stigma in the world to have been labelled an informer, especially on the island of Ireland.”When Séamus was released from prison in 1986, his mother made him promise that he would find out if her son Michael really was an informer. In the documentary, Séamus details the lengths he went to find the truth, including persuading the IRA to conduct an internal investigation in 2001. In early 2003, he was asked to go to a house in West Belfast where two senior IRA men read out a statement acknowledging Michael was never a spy. “The army [IRA] read out the report saying he was cleared, he wasn’t an informer," Séamus tells Prime Time.
“Justice here is to find, not only the people who pulled triggers and killed individuals before a court, but significantly - and this is something that sometimes gets overlooked - the people who orchestrated and oversaw this mass process of an informant at the apex of British military intelligence inside the IRA involved in killing people or overseeing the deaths of many, many people.”Brother, Informer, Soldier, Spy is airing as part of the upcoming edition of Prime Time, which starts at 9.35pm on Tuesday, 13 June on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player. You can check out its trailer right here: Read more:
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