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Podcast host alleges Derry IRA sought TV publicity in 1969 clash
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Were The Troubles made on television?
What was said
"At the police station, the police say to him, "Clean yourself up." And he refuses, "I wanted the outside world to see the blood flowing strongly down my face." And what is really toxic for Northern Ireland's image is that an Irish TV crew, an RTE crew, had filmed the whole thing."
A Rest Is History host says some accounts allege the Derry IRA planned for MPs to be placed at the front of a march to draw blows and publicity. He also recalls Gerry Fitt being beaten by police and refusing to clean up so his injuries would be seen, as RTÉ footage circulated internationally.
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- The Rest Is History
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- Were The Troubles made on television?
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