Captain Robert Nairac murder by the IRA
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- Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC (31 August 1948 - 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company[1][2] who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer.
Nairac was just a murderer.
I can’t understand why he thought he could pass off as a Ulster man pure madness
the crowds in those pubs know a stranger immediately basically, right...? catholics from nearby only...?
He thought he was Lawrence of Arabia.. He was playing out his fantasy...
I walked into a south armagh pub for water for my failed radiator....it was like American werewolf in london movie.....silence, they didnt know me and im from a 15 mile radius....He would never have managed it because the dialects are different over short ranges. I.E. Belfast sounds nothing like crossmaglen, and Newry sounds different to both....and we arent that far apart, he didnt really understand that. Plus he sang the wrong song...
@@anthonydonlan3140 that's the exact comparison I was thinking of-- TE Lawrence... I wonder if he was a poof too looking for a bit of bum-fun...
@@seanheader9279 he should've sung something by Thin Lizzy...
Ambushing individuals with a camera crew asking extremely sensitive questions, what a ridiculous method of "investigative journalism"
It's called gutter journalism
You mean ambushing terrorists or terrorist collaborators.
@@jackietreehorn5561 Don't think that really addresses the point does it.
You would never be done investigating the British army. Have you ever done a documentary on Aiden McAnespie and the collusion and backtruth of Loughinisland, everyone knows the out come, he was also present while a bomb was placed into the miami showman bus, your a very good man at demonising the natives but again your the same type that because you put a uniform on your legit
I spoke to a lad in Swindon who served with Nairac.
He said without hesitation "Nairac was an idiot who risked the lives of his colleagues for his own agenda, nobody in the regiment respected his irrational actions. He was a glory hunter, a snob and generally speaking a srlfish arse#ole."
I have read more than I can remember about Nairac and even as a University student e was an oddball. I pretty well agree with what you say about him, but there is one thing that I keep coming back to regarding what ever is written, or spoken about him and that is, Why was he allowed to continue with his maverick antics without ever being pulled into line? Even one of his own brother officers went to see the senior officer in charge and recommend that he be taken out of Northern Ireland because of the things he was doing and this guy was basically ignored. It always makes me wonder. The guy was behaving like he was in some sort of James Bond fantasy world and people were happy to just let him carry on for whatever reason. Sheer lunacy which ended in the inevitable.
@@josephlennon8475 People like the ones you mention certainly do think differently to most but in the case of Nairac, his actions were nothing short of completely irresponsible, you could put them in a Hollywood film script. It was almost as if he had suicidal tendencies. I have spent over 20 years in Northern Ireland, mostly in Belfast as well as other Areas and I can say with 💯% Certainty, nobody would have got away with a bluff like that in an area such as South Armagh, nobody.
he had balls though and this comes from a resident of south Amagh.....although he shouldnt have wore a cowboy hat out on patrol sometimes....he did get noticed
also when he was in belfast the kids for some reason liked him
your right, he would wear a cowboy hat on patrol.....dig deeper and youll find that true
if someone uninvited killed a member of your family and took over a room in your house wouldn't you want them out ? would it make you a terrosist for using force on them ?
Palestine parallels
Don't ever take your enemy's for a fool
ENEMIES
@@brandonshaw2120Anal retention .. Always a white flag.
He Was Boloxing around , With His Enemy , If You Think The Irish are Stupid , Believe me You are Wrong.
Well you say that?
What you say rings true, Captain Nairac had no SIS covert ops tradecraft training, he operated out of the SOPs and got caught. He was a brave man who should have been supervised better by his superiors.
RIP all those who died in The Troubles, on both sides.@@patkearney9320
@@patkearney9320 He would have gotten away and killed some of his would-be captors had the pistol not misfired!
Only those who were there that night knew what happened.... I think it was just crazy what he did.... there is no body to recover he's been long gone...
He sung an official IRA song in a Provo bar and raised eyebrows, you don't do that.(everyone was singing republican songs but not official IRA songs) but he didn't know the ideology of the area,. When your from no Ireland you know when and what to say and when not, he didn't. resident of South Armagh...
His first mistake was not realizing that he didn’t even look like a White man. When you look at his profile in pictures, he had an Asian or South Sea Islander look. I don’t know why he thought he could pass as Irish.
I think the term is called summary justice.
I live local and don't believe the IRA would put Nairac through a meat grinder, they don't do that. However its a big forest to find one in. From what i hear Nairac sang a sticky song (offical IRA SONG) in the three steps pub and thats a no no. Thats when suspicions where raised....You don't sing a sticky song in the heartland of south Armagh IRA....The provos dont like offical sticky IRA. period.(they use to operate together but they broke of from each other) Nairac with little knowledge of the ideology of that area made the fatal mistake of thinking their ballads and songs related to all republican.....South Armagh resident.... ...And i hope one day they will give up his whereabouts.....
what does 'sticky' mean...?
@@joeneil5485 Its a slang term giving to the offical IRA when they broke of from their comrades who became the Provisional IRA...On Easter Sunday when both commemorate their dead the Stickys wear a sticky Easter lily while the provos have a pin through theirs.
@@seanheader9279 the flower is stuck on with glue or something...?
@@joeneil5485 what you on about?
these are paper lilys
paper prints that resemble the lily
I always thought this guy had a nervous breakdown that night, triggered by so many tours of duty. None of his last actions make any sense.
He was involved with the uvf he was a terrorist.
Well I don’t think he had a nervous breakdown because it was him who invented the car bombing in the troubles. He along with UDA members bombed the Irish republic known as the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
Then he was responsible for the brutal murder of the Miami Showband. He was the one who stopped the band members that night after setting up a fake checkpoint.
The plan was to plant a bomb in the back of the van of the band members who were both made up of catholic and Protestant.
When the bomb went off at the “checkpoint” he shot the Miami showband with “dum dum” bulletts.
The guy was a psychopath.
@@Stargreened Things are never so clear cut. People have researched Nairac and it's well documented that he was in Scotland at the time of the Miami Showband bomb. As for him 'inventing' the car bombing in the south, I really doubt it as neither he nor the Loyalist paramilitaries had the technical knowledge to make a timed detonator. I think there was wider collusion between the British Intel and Military and Loyalist paramilitaries concerning that.
He was involved in the Miami showband massacre.
Bullshit
@@ItsKenny11 Yes he was!
The true orchestrator of the Kingsmill massacre. The lone survivor said that the masked leader had a "crisp English accent".
@@undercoverbrother67that was the showband capper
A clipped English accent, as believable as it is, there's no evidence apart from that statement....the area was crawling with SAS at the time, disgruntled ex English army, could have been any member of the British security forces
He participated in the murders of the Miami Showband, he deserves no sympathy.
Proof ?
2 eye witnesses that were there
@@jackietreehorn5561 ll who ?
@@Felix-rising Steven Travers and des lee
@@jackietreehorn5561 so two people that never met him ?
I heard Nairac was one of principal organisers of the Miami Showband massacre. A survivor of the massacre revealed this in an interview on RTE last year. He... .sSo is in the processes of writing a book about it So much for the noble soldier image.
I call bullshit
@@PeterNgolanairaic was found in possession of uda regalia so he was definitely up to no good
What a load of 💩
Nairac was identified by one of the survivors of the Miami Showband massacre. Book to come out soon
RTE are renowned for their.....reliability....these days..😅...im being sarcastic, theyre liarsand anti irish to the core....as for robert Nirac..its very hard to know, I dont believe there's any direct evidence linking him to this...who know. He played a dangerous game, and lost.
He should not be on Irish soil jim
How many irish did her murder before he met his makers
brilliant documentary.
It was a war. War is ugly. We now have peace.
I have to agree with also full independence for the Ireland of Ireland
Nairac knew everything he was doing in he North,he went to dromintee playing the super-spy,he got his just desserts. He was the enemy.
Bollocks
why do the arrogant english think the world,is born with half a brain they thought this of the zulu warriors easy pickings with branches for ammunition.. ..and still havnt learned.. everyone must submit thats why they are beneath the waves
Wow listen to you , the big man behind his keyboard
HOW RIGHT YOU ARE
I wonder what Nairacs mission was before he was detected?
he never had one, they knew he was an idiot risk taker so they let him get on with his own little mission....spying where and when! the army had nothing to loose and all to gain if his efforts where fruitful....he was expendable
What did he expect, murdering guinness and irish songs?!
Dulce et decorum est pro patri mori. But Robert Nairac will always be a enigma living through a mystery. A patriot or an adventurer with a death-wish.
I heard he went up to a sing a song with his jacket on to conceal his pistol, and it was a warm day, and i guess they found out he was special forces, just a possibility
Britain needs to leave Northern Ireland already.
Why it's just as British as England
We left years ago soldier.
@@CARLIN4737 Stay at home boy. Learn your lesson and you wont be hurt. Brighton poofters
@@douglastaggart9360except it’s not really😁
@@douglastaggart9360 I would think that If you said that in a pub on The Falls Road within a few minutes, I guarantee you would soon retract saying such an inflammatory and misjudged statement. Without a doubt .
He was going into republican bars singing irish rebel songs ...he was sniffed out within 5 minutes ..snuffed out within 60 minutes .never to be seen again ..
He must have been retarded thinking he could pull that off......
most likely yea, they spotted him as soon as they set eyes on him.
@@artfasil exactly.. apparently he went in .. giving it large ..with his phoney Belfast accent .. getting on stage with the band . ..stood out like a sore thumb..
@@hedgefundshyster..3241his rendition of "my old man's a Provo "..sealed his fate.
@@alanleahy2047 ,😂
Lord have mercy on the soul of Captain Robert Nairac and all other British soldiers, police, and undercover gangsters, all trained killers who lost their lives carrying out the Great British government instruction but what the hell was his and his dearest soldier palls doing invading and causing murder, fear, destruction and bringing great sadness, sorry to many parts of Ireland and its people
There was nothing great about the British government. The army should never have been in Ireland. It was a political problem not a military one.
@@geraldoloughlin8307
Greed, madness and sheer brutality against their nearest and dearest neighboring people, The Irish people done nothing but great things for the British/English but they were blind and had almost no understanding of the irish, they wanted total control and all the lands and all the beautiful scenery of Ireland, As the very great and most blessed Phil Lynatt wrote and sang they came to claim the Emerold, without they could not leave. Irish people suffered from over 800 years of invasions, brutality, and theft, the invaders tried their very best to destroy people beliefs and their religion, It is all too similar to what is happening to the poor bombed, shot, and starved people of Gaza/Palestine. God be with and help all downtrodden and frightened people of the world, give strength and hope to the peacemakers
fuck the great British government
No fecking volume. What's the point in posting this?
The West Brit narrator is loathsome
I also heard he would go on patrol in south armagh with regular units in a cowboy hat, drawing unwanted attention for everyone else....Now i read that somewhere so i dont know if its true.
This obviously didn't happen very often as far as one knows regarding British Army officers being compromised & killed by the PIRA. One would have to ask however what he was thinking going into a pub in a heavy Republican area in South Armagh in an undercover capacity ALONE with no backup, it just sounds to me like a suicidal thing to do, honestly speaking there were things during that time that you just did not do.
He answered to no one... loose cannon and they let him go and get on with it.....expendable. They knew he would take risks no one else would. I live close to that pub....the British army used him as cannon fodder....
@@seanheader9279 Makes sense..
If I'm not mistaken wasn't a UVF embroidered handkerchief found among some of Nairac's belongings?
It was indeed he was involved in the Miami showband massacre
yes i heard that
The soldier ignored military procedures and willingly wrote his own death sentence. Not murdered. End of story
Harry's game
Yes. Very interesting. Also, that other one with the fella from Minder.
What one from Minder? @@brandonshaw2120
And then there were the many killings that Nairac was responsible for.
He was a serial killer who got his just desserts
It was a bloody war: intricate woven history. Good men with a good course; but not in the times of the troubles, sadly
He was a half wit, r.i.p.
Blood debts are paid in blood
Took 9 of the cowards to overpower capt Nairac , typical of the scum
You are full of shit he was half cut leaving the bar and he wasn't a big fella. You lot say this about the massacre of the two sas fellas you say they were so brave they didn't unload their handguns into the crowd but any eejit knows two handguns are not going to stop a hoard of 100 people.
When did the British army ever fight one on one ? He only thought he was a hard man……South Armagh is where hard men are born🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@406estate grow up,wat does A mean in the ira,army from my experience army's put on the uniform and fight the fight face to face,call themselves a army do me favour,blowing up and killing innocent people scumbags just like hammas,in todays world,so get your facts right,
@@stephenburns7061violence is a reaction because greviences hasn't been addressed
@406estate South armagh were riddled with Informers. If they weren't committing suicide In prison they were touting to the ruc
I think I have one of the last photos taken of him
Is it a tin of dog food?
@@Apollo17-yz2sh does that imlie
The wee soldier should have stayed in his own home land.
He was in the UK
@@ProfileP246 not his homeland though!
@@maitiucibhleachain5139 ira shouldnt murder kids
@@SuperCod4567 are you Nairac's ghost? Where'd they put you Robert?
@@ProfileP246 No, he wasn't. He was in the part of Ireland that is occupied by a foreign aggressor, of which he was a key member.
Murder
What a brave and wonderful comrade he must have been. We should take our hats off to this young man. May he live long in our history. Wherever he maybe, may he rest in peace and RISE IN GLORY
He was terrorist they found a uvf handkerchief on him.
Ha ha the RA got him fuck him
thank you for your kind words regarding Robert,
@@stephenburns7061what's your thoughts on Stephen travers and des mcaleas eye witnesses accounts
Another way of looking at it is he endangered his own comrades with his stupidity.
Who cares. Stay in your own lane.
What a cowardly act
he's sitting next to thatcher in hell
He was not a nice man,
The poor chap was used to hold the Status Quo of Colonialism.
Russia's soldiers are doing the same thing in Crimea since 2014, and trying to Colonise the rest of Ukraine now as we know.
When will Working Class People ever learn??
Lmfaoo get rekt
rest in peace hero
@@PotatoSalad614 Rest in piss more like
Haha ha ha ha ha
Nothing funny
@@SuperCod4567 Hes only laughing because all the IRA touts were tortured and executed by the biggest IRA tout of all, its just a defense mechanism.
Imagine having to accept the reality of your whole movement being ran and 'internally cleansed' by the Brits?
Its got to hurt, I mean really, really hurt.
@@cocksure8430 They bombed the financial quarter of London in the 90s hardly an organization doomed eh? So STFU
@@cocksure8430 Imagine one of Margaret Thatcher's Northern Ireland minister's saying that the IRA's violence worked ...It's got to hurt, I mean really, really hurt ! ..A former Northern Ireland secretary who served under Margaret Thatcher has said the IRA's violence worked.
Lord Jim Prior was secretary of state in 1981 at the time of the hunger strikes when 10 republicans died in prison.
Mrs Thatcher said the men were criminals and refused to grant concessions.
But Lord Prior told a BBC documentary that she never really understood what the problem was.
"Violence probably does work, it may not work quickly and may not be seen to work quickly, but in the long run, one has to look back and say it did work," he told documentary maker Peter Taylor in a programme to be broadcast on Monday.
@@cocksure8430 nope,your missing the reality,the split 69?was identified as an Mi5op,northern command ceased to exist militarily 76 onwards,you,ve completely missed the strategy,you cannot teach an "innbred Terdous"military theoretical warfare,a walking terdous is like his innbredd mother?Terd,💋.
Should have stayed in his own country🇮🇪
forgot to say Robert a Catholic, ira Catholic same related in faith,then to kill him saying bring you a priest to say your confessions,and lying to him and the faith you and him tread,shame on you.all
The IRA weren't a religous order and the Republic was never about Protestant vs Catholic. The founding fathers of Irish Republicanism were mostly Presbyterian. Nairac was an enemy spy, he was captured and shot.
Yea that was a dispicable thing to do. However the shenanigans this man involved himself in were likewise dispicable.
@@biddyearly9262 you Ave your opinion and I Ave mine and I that's ok with me
@@biddyearly9262 you say your pity
Bob was an Oxford Boxing Blue. Believe me, Bob could handle himself and, others. One on One, you would have been in difficulties.
Speak with Slab Murphy, he’ll know what happened to Bob’s body.
Taken out by the Brave and gallant men of the Irish Republican Army 🇮🇪
Nothing brave or gallant about them
Nothing brave or gallant about the British Army shooting unarmed men, women and children and plotting to bomb primary schools.
surprised you can spell never mind the word BRAVE, ira brave,jez does your brain hurt?
They're pathetic evil pos terrorists no better than taliban or hamas or al quaeda
@@stephenburns7061 as book by Eamon Collins sums up everyone on each side...he seen many that were brave people but also seen others the scum of the earth....goes for every one involved