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The Truth About Stakeknife: Legendary journalist Martin Dillon on the real stories of the Troubles
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The Truth About Stakeknife: Legendary journalist Martin Dillon on the real stories of the Troubles

Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning · Joe Brolly

March 22, 20251h 8mExplicit

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Show Notes

Martin Dillon knew Rosemary Nelson. He says he has only met a few people like her in his life. He describes her as someone with "overarching respect for human life". Nelson was a solicitor and in March 1999, she was blown up when a car bomb exploded as she drove to work. On Free State today, the legendary journalist Martin Dillon joins us to talk about the women whose lives were destroyed and lost during the Troubles. In his new book The Sorrow and the Loss, Dillon looks at the shadow cast by the Troubles on so many lives. He returns to the case of Rosemary Nelson and the collusion that was involved in her murder. He talks about the killing of Caroline Moreland and who knows what about her murder. He talks too about Stakeknife. The world knows Stakeknife as Freddie Scappaticci but Dillon says he believes more than one man was Stakeknife.


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