Anne Cadwallader - uncovering the truth.
This week's TwoMacs Podcast comes from the home of distinguished investigate journalist Anne Cadwallader.
Anne is best known as author of Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland (Mercier Press, 2013) written when she worked at the Pat Finucane Centre for Human Rights.
For years there were claims that loyalists were helped and guided by members of the RUC and UDR, but there was no proof.
Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and shootings in an area that became known as 'The Murder Triangle', in counties Tyrone and Armagh (and the Dublin and Monaghan bombings) in the 1970s.
Drawing on 15 years of research with her colleagues, and using forensic and ballistic information never before published, the book includes official documents showing that the highest in the land knew of the collusion and names those whose fingers were on the trigger and who detonated the bombs. It is a vital document that shook the establishment and confirmed there was a level of collusion that enabled the loyalist Glennane Gang to murder 120 victims at will. The authorites continue to put up obstacles to the full truth.
Anne talks of the campaign of the grieving families, the emotional pressures of the research and how classical composer Sebilius, among others, helped raise her spirits.
She also discusses her background as a young English BBC journalist moving to the war-torn North and settling in West Belfast.
We thank Anne for her warm welcome and extend our good wishes and prayers as she faces into a major operation in the new year.