Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland Season 1 Episode 4 - Loose Talk Costs Lives

Airdate: 2023-May-22

Episode summary:

By the late 1980s, the news in Northern Ireland is a daily list of the dead. But 14 bloody days in March 1988 mark a new level of harrowing savagery.When a car reverses at speed into an IRA funeral cortege, mourners are convinced it's another attack – a repeat of a grenade and gun strike by a lone loyalist that had killed three at an IRA funeral just days earlier. The car contains two British soldiers who are lynched and shot dead by a baying mob. The incident is captured on camera and becomes headline news.

About Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland series:

Twenty-five years on from a peace agreement being reached, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland shares intimate, unheard testimonies from all sides...Show more >