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Some Up to date Media reportage.....

 

THE IRISH ECHO: Album explores family trauma

11th March 2019

https://www.irishecho.com/2019/03/album-explores-familys-trauma/

 

JMI: The End and the Beginning

Cormac Breatnach's 'The Whistle Blower' tour and album, featuring Daire Bracken and Martin Tourish, is both an act of healing as well as a challenging musical offering. Ian Bascombe reviews the performance at Glór.

24th January 2019

http://journalofmusic.com/criticism/end-and-beginning

IMRO: Cormac Breatnach Embarkes on Whistle Blower Out of Time Tour -

14th January 2019

https://www.imro.ie/member-news/cormac-breatnach-embarkes-on-whistle-blower-out-of-time-tour/

 

The Irish Times: Cormac Breatnach: Blowing the whistle on a family trauma -

10th January 2019

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/cormac-breatnach-blowing-the-whistle-on-a-family-trauma-1.3738430

The artist behind The Whistleblower, which made the cut of Hot Press' Top 30 Folk

Albums 2018, has launched the tour of his new concept album funded by the Arts

Council - 9th January 2019

https://www.hotpress.com/music/whistleblower-time-tour-2019-22764316 

The Irish Times: The Best Traditional Gigs in Ireland This week - 5th January 2019

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-best-traditional-gigs-in-ireland-this-week-1.3735659

 

The Sunday Times: Songs of innocence for wrongly convicted Sallins ‘train robber’  -

November 2018

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1fc13748-eaa2-11e8-a32a-6c510fb4641a

Osgur Breatnach: 'Finné' TG4 (c) Osgur Breatnach reveals how he was wrongly convicted of one of the

biggest robberies in Irish history:

first shown 24th October 2018
Repeat Monday 29th October @ 11.35pm

https://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/finne/

Wronged Man still seeking answers 40 years after Sallins Train Robbery

October 2018

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/wronged-man-still-seeking-answers-40-years-after-sallins-train-robbery-1.3673264

Some Media reportage going back over the last 30 years.....

Diarmaid Ferriter: Revisiting the ‘blue wall of silence’ on Garda corruption

October 2017                                                                                                                                                  https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/diarmaid-ferriter-cosgrave-s-support-of-the-garda-cast-a-long-shadow-1.3255166

Vincent Browne: Garda dysfunctionality is nothing new - The Irish Times

March 2017

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjn4I_9wOPUAhUpAsAKHT2DD1IQFggjMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fvincent-browne-garda-dysfunctionality-is-nothing-new-1.3031115&usg=AFQjCNEvvQzgJ6dVmcH2as9bjqUdS2oRHQ

 

Nicky Kelly still seeks answers for Sallins train robbery arrest

April 2016

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiLgPOQwOPUAhUsKcAKHSo_CC4QFgg0MAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fnicky-kelly-still-seeks-answers-for-sallins-train-robbery-arrest-1.2598157&usg=AFQjCNELN4U33_MbkJvcIOPTiZypx2Iz-w

The drama and debacle of the Sallins train robbery - The Irish Times

April 2015

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiLgPOQwOPUAhUsKcAKHSo_CC4QFggtMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fculture%2Fstage%2Fthe-drama-and-debacle-of-the-sallins-train-robbery-1.2161447&usg=AFQjCNELoOmbx5MoZWLViGk-yQfXBchDQg

RTÉ/TG4 - 'Scannal' - Director: 

September 2014 with repeats

http://www.tg4.ie/ga/clair/scannal/

Garda whistleblowers - a 38 year old warning - Osgur Breatnach

March 2014

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwirrJOV6aHVAhWIDMAKHWM5DnA4ChAWCCIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osgurbreatnach.com%2Fgarda-heavy-gang-sallins-mail-train-robbery%2F&usg=AFQjCNFr9rxnoVczT6blbe5g3I1VM3JQZw

State Papers – 1977: Jack Lynch set up Garda brutality inquiry                                                              December 2007

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwifxdjq1_DWAhUEORoKHaMECUcQFggvMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishexaminer.com%2Fireland%2Fstate-papers-1977-jack-lynch-set-up-garda-brutality-inquiry-51346.html&usg=AOvVaw0OSPlNkqNEv10LWv0_gyhi

Don't forget the Sallins Case, Minister! Protect our Citizens! | An ...

January 2004

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi3sMfT8qHVAhWECcAKHRQ7D5cQFggnMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anphoblacht.com%2Fcontents%2F11140&usg=AFQjCNH4IIVKfO1Bq5mK7RTgwmPJHVPZig

TG4 - 'Faoi Lámha an Stáit'- Director: Justin McCarthy - Producer: Dónall Ó Malfabhail 

 2001

https://youtu.be/0MiFMtAHfwA?t=1112

RTÉ Archives 1992 Society | Presidential Pardon For Nicky Kelly

April 1992

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi73bGD5KHVAhWKL8AKHWyRD0kQFgg4MAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rte.ie%2Farchives%2F2017%2F0426%2F870547-presidential-pardon-for-nicky-kelly%2F&usg=AFQjCNHWhR3Gxb-XGsOQU3A9pwxrMEVjxw

RTÉ Archives 1988 - 16th November

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21298682-sallins-suspect-sues-state/

 

RTÉ Archives 1988 - 23rd November

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21298770-sallins-suspect-loses-case/

The Seeds of a Police State | Politico - Vincent Browne:

August 1983

http://politico.ie/archive/seeds-police-state 

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