British Offered Lynch the North in '69 but He Said No Thanks ; Wilson Planned Secret Deal to Re-Unite Ireland
Sunday Mirror › September 06, 2009
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AN RTE documentary claimed last week former Taoiseach Jack Lynch once came close to ordering troops to seize Nationalist areas in the North.
His ominous broadcast that the Government would "no longer stand by" as northern nationalists came under attack from loyalist mobs and the RUC made many fear he was about to invade. Secret plans were even drawn up by Generals as Derry's Battle of the Bogside raged in 1969.See the full content of this document
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British Offered Lynch the North in '69 but He Said No Thanks ; Wilson Planned Secret Deal to Re-Unite Ireland
The programme, If Lynch Had Invaded, portrayed the Irish Army as poorly equipped and unprepared for its mission that would have seen them being "slaughtered" by the numerically superior British forces. But now award-winning journalist DENIS LEHANE explains what REALLY happened behind the scenes in those darks days of August 1969.
He claims a secret deal was on offer by British PM Harold...See the full content of this document
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