Vigilantes Tackle Pig Smugglers, Ireland 1969
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- Members of the National Farmers’ Association are mounting vigilante patrols along the border in a bid to combat pig smuggling.
According to Paddy McArdle who owns a shop near Dundalk in County Louth, the illegal transport of pigs across the border usually starts from a farm that has land on both sides of the border.
The pigs are dropped in a shed on the northern side, are transferred along a covered passage to the south and reloaded onto southern lorries.
Customs officials know who is involved in the racket but they cannot go into the passages and prove the pigs that go in are the same as the ones that come out.
It is estimated that between 4,000 and 6,000 pigs a week are being illegally transported across the border and the activity provides a tidy tax free addition to a weekly wage.
It is the non smuggling pig farmer who feels himself hard hit by the profiteering of the few.
National Farmers’ Association (NFA) men from the area have set up vigilante patrols and are building up dossiers on suspects to give to customs officials.
The vigilantes have no legal ability to stop suspect lorries, but follow them to find out who is involved and the factories handling the smuggled pigs so they can report back to officials.
It is believed there are twelve major gig smugglers along the border and locals in Louth say they know of four of them. The smugglers have farms in towns such as Dundalk, and Carrickmacross in County Monaghan.
One man feels it is his duty to expose the racket as it undermines the whole pig industry. He says a small number are involved but he knows who they are and he recognises their lorries.
Vigilantes suspect farm owner Patrick Murphy and his brothers and helpers are carrying out an illegal run. They block the road to his farm. The suspects are angry but none of them are prepared to make a comment on why they were singled out and stopped by the vigilantes.
A ‘Seven Days’ report broadcast on 28 October 1969. The reporter is Rodney Rice. - บันเทิง
"They're my pigs Father, I just didn't want to fill out the forms"
😂😂😂😂
That wouldnt be Thomas Slab Murphy by an chance??
Matches age profile (b.1949) and has a brother Patrick.
The 1 and only
Compare his picture today and then... No doubt.
best red diesel about
Smuggle guns and diesel, NOT PIGS!
4:34 The start of the convoy scene, jumpin' like the Sweeney into Ford Anglia's etc is nothing short of hilarious - you couldn't make this stuff up. 🤣🤣🤣
As someone who has relatives in the area this is no surprise. Cattle rustling smuggling and cross border banditry were rampant
Patrick Murphy and his brother. His Brother being tom "Slab" Murphy. Slab being one of the most fearsome operators of the troubles.
For more info read "Bandit Country".
Oh if only that’s all we had 2 deal with now !!!
All animals were harmed in the making of this film😥🐷🐖🐽
The Irish are very patient people.
A beautiful place, i miss very much, hopefully be back soon.
Hope there are a few Irish people left by the time you return.
Nothing lower than pig smugglers
what about whale dung? as low as you can get
What about illegal immigrants.
You'd want to be pig headed
@@michaelgaskell7408 whoosh
How about snake smugglers
Was that a certain Slab Murphy by any chance at the end????
The lad with the stick - would that be Patsy O'Callaghan, later given the cover name "The Undertaker"?
Is there anything slab Murphy hasn’t smuggled?
Fantastic times wish we were back there again
That was Dan, Dan the piper's son.
Pig smuggling be the last thing to worry about in a few amonths time bejaysus
When you owned a ford zephyr back in the day you had a few ol bob
Why are you smuggling pigs?
Cuz they're smaller than horses.
Looks like this is still going on at government buildings today with Leo and Michael
I like how the main point of contention between the authorities and the "smugglers" is a good ol' fashioned simple switcheroo. The authorities can't tell if the pigs coming out are the same ones that went in. 🤣
Surely the pigs from the north would have a slightly harsher accent?
@@thegolem797The northern Pigs would have oinked with an Ulster Scots accent😂😂😂 Ye dinnae expect to gae a response a yeer later Aye!? Am American and live in the U.S.A. This barmy yank just felt the need to reply to yoor comment.
I came here to see a video about vigilantes tackling cops about the cops' smuggling activities, only to find it features Slab and his brother in their fledgling careers.
Oh man, best video title on TH-cam, hands down. I haven't watched it yet, but worried, that's a lot to live up to.
Well what did you think? lol
@@MBM1117727 Weeell, no comment, you hear me? No comment, I don't know nothing about no swine smugglin'!
@@JesseP.Watson swine lives matter
No wonder CustomOfficers were Dis’grunt’led.
Mr Murphy = Slab Murphy.
Is that the infamous Slab Murphy? These guys all went on the become diesel smugglers.
They could have tattooed the hogs ear, orange or green 🐷
I met a man who told me he lived on BOTH sides of the border at the same time and I almost bet him he didn't but when I visited him I discovered the border runs through the middle of his house Thus he could stand at one end and be in Northern Ireland and at the opposite end he would be in the Republic of Ireland. Glad I didn't take his bet
Who was that slab murphy lol.
I think that you might be talking about by dear old uncil
@@jamesbradshaw3389 What is a Uncil? I think you mean your Uncle and you might be right
He's not the only one... I know a fella who, when he's having a slash, is standing in the Republic and pissing into the North.
@@tearitloosetearitloose4670 belter lol
Wonder how many of them "vigilantes" ended up as sausages
Wonder how many of them "vigilantes" were smugglers.
@@APG875 the whole lot I'd say
@@michaelf4506 🤣🤣🤣
You know its taboo to post videos of irish politicians on their days off.
I love the drama!
It's that music it adds a dissinging pace to the whole cabal, riveting 🍀
Thomas 'Slab' Murphy before he joined the Provisional I.R.A.
Those pesky pig poachers are at it again
Truly fighting a blight on society.
Camera car's a Mercedes, it's not really seen but there's a glimpse of the hood ornament at the bottom of the screen at 1:02.
that's slab Murphy there
Some man for one man 😆
Where?
10.30 @@liamg1706
Smuggling is only a crime because countries choose to have pointless taxes on different items. If these were abolished, the "crime" would just evaporate
It's basically Scarface but with pigs
I understand pulp fiction was based on the shenanigans of the pig smugglers.
@@jenrutherford6690 I take it you've never seen pulp fiction
@@liamg1706 I was making a joke.
@@jenrutherford6690 okay its just that there was no smuggling of any kind in pulp fiction.
@@liamg1706 the pig 🐖
No sound??????
anybody have any idea where paddy mcardles shop is , tried finding the border point on google maps couldent locate it
Yes I know it well, its on the junction of Courtbane road and Alley road a few yards before McShane Tyres, you can see where their buildings are located in the video at 0:47
@@madeljacky thank you
@@darrendaly1234 glad I could be of help.
Of all the things you could be a vigilante for this is by far one of the most pathetic.
What's that stuck on the shed at 6.33 ?
6:33 is a Japanese manji swastika which is a left pointing swastika symbol as opposed to the right pointing Nazi swastika, absolutely no idea why one of them would be on a shed wall around Crossmaglen
@@madeljacky Lol! Thanks for that information.
It's a peace symbol from india
@@michaelf4506 Oh, right. It just looked out of place, especially for Ireland in 1969, so I was wondering. My grandfather came from Co Mayo, it's interesting to see Ireland back in those days.
5:34 "A Department of Agriculture statement suggests that rashernilisation" and.......🤣🤣🤣
The bauld slab 😅😅
Harmless People, God bless them.
Bacon was the Crack of society back then.Except for Crack it still today
The young people of today will not believe you when you tell them how it was bay back in our times and what we had to do to survive, Sheep, cattle, horses and pigs kidnapping was very might in our area, we would always get good money for the safe return of those animals, we would only return them back to their farms in the dead of a very dark night, Those were the good old day, the youngsters of today would not like to carry out this hard work.
Aye and when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah. You try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you...
@@APG875 seems like a good Christian man
Was in Juarez and Sinaloa few years back, similar...Sans technicals 😉 #CJNG #NFA
Last guy looks like one himself 🤣oink*😂oink
Is that a swastika at 6:30?
no, a swastika points to the right. I say its a Japanese manji, others on here say its a Buddhism symbol, everyone has their own opinion what it is.
The same lads would report you for not getting covid jabs.
Seriously? This is ridiculous
Aah you've no sense of humour atall
There is extreme irony by the very fact that a united Ireland would take away the North/South crossborder price diffential that creates smuggling profits in the first place. So imo the likes of 'Slab Murphy' and other other borderland republicans 'struggle' was not to have a united Ireland but more a case of making U.K South Armagh a no go zone for U.K police and customs. That way the smuggling racket could operate without risk of interruption, arrest(s) and court punishment(s). And to keep everyone happy U.K authorities have let the smuggling continue to keep the likes of 'Slab' on board the peace process. There is some irony that the Republic of Ireland has also been robbed of mega-tax revenue (pays for hospitals and public services) by the very people who claim to want to be part of it.
You are absolutely correct. As Toby Harnden's book explains, many of the people of this area have always been criminals first, and republicans second (and I say this as someone who has distant in-laws in the area - certainly not criminals)
British called us bandits....only one bandits came in
hilarious musical soundtrack
They should have taught the pigs to fly and then theres no body in bother.
Slab and his brother went on to make about £40million in smuggling all sorts and became head of tge IRA
Who is the guy in the house in south armagh with half in each country so he pays rent to none as he can move in the house to both sides of the border thats a man using his loaf indeed.
That would be the Murphy family, a coward of a man. He is simply a life time criminal, hiding behind republicanism as so many in that area are.
can they swim?very soon a border in the Irish sea..
And next week….. Cattle rustling 😅
Some boyo Slab!
We are only making bacon.
6:32 anyone else see the Irish symbol of buddhism
Mullingar the epicenter of shenanigans
If any of them buzy bodies in the cars had sheds falling either of the border they would be at it too, that's the funny part, it's just good old fashioned jealousy!!! The whole border thing is B's to me though. Who sets where the line is, how can the see it for a start 😂
Sure there was loads of pigs in Northern Ireland!!.lovely countryside the farmers had great cars and they had more time on their hands back then to be spinning about. 😉
Poor tax man ha ha
I wish we could go bak to dem times
Sad times when a farmer is branded a "smuggler" for moving animals over an imaginary line drawn across his country by foreigners.
Imaginary border…rubbish
Are you a thick jock ?the poigs flew oder da border demselfs.
Da border the IRA lost in the Oirish civil war ,when dey surrendered in da poist oiffice
What a load bollocks.
@@davidjones638 The same imaginary borders that Brits drew all over the world, causing untold death and misery.
Absolutely
Big deal,biggest scammers is dail erin
Something should be done about this. They could be shifting bicycles as well.
Bandit country. Always was.
Hope they made a fortune
120k a week back then -- some dosh-- wonder were they destined for sausage factorys😮
Bringing home the bacon?
So what ? The pigs aren't stolen are they ?
Lol 😂 these days my problem is keeping the pigs away from any lambs lol 😂 they just eat em lol 😂
I want me rashers!
OINK OINK OFFICER
So, pigs were worth more money in the uk, so why be bothered
Think it was about not paying the tax on them and with cigarettes, fuel etc and very profitable when a constant thing
This is a comedy. 😂
The bring pig's and cow's from Argentina into ireland and put an Irish sticker on them and sell them in Irish shops
Pig smuggling was a easy way to make money to easy imo
50k views 6 days on you tube 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 winner winner
👁🐽👁 lol
The smugglers are the ones in the cars don't be fooled now,it is paddy land
Not no more.
@@paullooney2522 apart from the joke ,I agree Ireland is in turmoil , unrecognisable.
Try National Party Ireland as Sinn Fein etc are destroying the nation they claim to defend. Too many 3rd world dregs flooding the nation.
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Bandit country 😂
Slab would have sided with the Brits if they could have allowed him to carry on smuggling. He only joined the IRA as he knew this was the best chance of running the entire smuggling show along that part of the Border and anyone who crossed him would get the good news. Smart man.
How times change pigs to petrol & prostitutes
Slab more of a gangster than a republican