TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 4:20 Joining junior-wing of the IRA 07:35 BECOMING A B*MB MAKER 16:05 What type of b*mbs did Packy make? 26:15 Ever get “bitten by his own work” ? 27:10 What separates good b*mb-maker from a bad one ? 28:45 Mi5 attempt to recruit Packy 31:15 MAKING A B*MB 37:10 Shooting at British solider w/ a sniper rifle 38:35 Would you have known the loyalists? 41:05 B*mb-making II 47:55 CAUGHT MAKING B*MB & ARRESTED due to INFORMANT 1:01:55 Getting out of Long Kesh & life after the IRA
@pmac792
4 ай бұрын
Excellent interview need more step 4 or otherwise former pira to tell their stories before it's too late. Truth and Reconciliation commission idea was shot down by HMG back in the day. Only HMG. Fancy that.
@RobertOtoole-jo5bg
3 ай бұрын
It was a war that loyalists to the queen started. So they brought the bombing back in 1970. UK's fault 👍🇮🇪
@stevesandford1437
4 ай бұрын
I respect Volunteer McMahon for speaking honestly. (I've met the man, we agree upon some things, deeply disagree upon others...) What Patrick/Packy doesn't dwell on in this interview (though he mentions it briefly) is that in recent years he has been involved in 'cross community' initiatives involving ex-volunteers who were involved in Loyalist para-military activities. These efforts are an attempt to find a certain 'common ground' among ex-para militaries on both sides of the issue in order to promote understanding and a peaceful way forward for Northern Ireland. Anybody, whatever their conviction, involved in such a process is to be commended. (Many 'hard-liners' on both sides disapprove of such initiatives. Happily, those people are in the minority.) I read in some of the comments below that people doubt McMahon's account or even his sincerity. I don't and can't speak for the man, but he largely doesn't speak here about his long struggle with addiction (following his 6 years in prison) and the problems associated with addiction and recovery. It's very clear that his experiences contributed to this pattern of addiction. He has been damaged, both physically and yes, mentally by the experience of addiction. (All addicts have, I know, I'm one...) I wish him well in continued recovery. To those that doubt the veracity of his interview I will simply say this: He didn't get jailed for nothing. (Unlike some!!!) He was a volunteer. I think that The Good Listener podcast is to be commended for allowing such voices, (FROM ALL SIDES!) to be heard. (The interviewer does a fantastic job...) As Packy says in his final statement, "Go nEiri An Bothar Leat." (In the Irish language, this literally means, "May The Road Rise With You".) However, (the Gaelic language has a unique nuance) the phrase also means, "May You/We Move On." Indeed, we have to move on. xx SF
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Comrade thanks from my heart my addiction is beaten ill be doing the steps on 5 May a date important to me my granny I held when she died in kitchen of 18 Gibson Street my Brain is healing stay free my hand out to sf also
@boots869
3 ай бұрын
Respect to this man. Great series of interviews. Britain has never come to terms for it's responsibilities towards the Irish people. I read, as a brit born, Robert Keys book 'Ourselves Alone'. An eye-opener for the ignorant. Pleased to discover last year that there's Irish ancestry in the paternal side of the family. Many thanks.
@A.Mardle
2 ай бұрын
Basically a human wreck who killed a lot of people, caused immense suffering, and wasted his own life. He claims to have no regrets, but I suspect that he actually has nothing but regrets.
@ardakolimsky7107
2 ай бұрын
On all sides
@Hipit55
Ай бұрын
@@A.Mardle Keep in mind Bloody Sunday was a Human Rights march .14 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers died at the hands of the British army,those soldiers were given medals by the Queen afterwards.
@A.Mardle
Ай бұрын
@@Hipit55 I don't follow. What's your point?
@A.Mardle
Ай бұрын
@@ardakolimsky7107 Plenty of ex British soldiers are old and haunted and too deep in the bottle. Northern Ireland didn't do anybody any good.
@Hipit55
Ай бұрын
@@A.Mardle nonviolent Civil Rights marchers were being beaten and massacred so Packy and others chose to fight back.
@balor7
Ай бұрын
How could you conduct interviews on the troubles and not know about the 12th of July. I'm in Philadelphia and I know that
@alanmulligan3180
4 ай бұрын
Did you really ask him what significance was July 12th ??, sorry but someone doing a podcast on the troubles has just lost all creditable in my eyes...
@seeingimages
4 ай бұрын
I don't know how lethal his bombs were, but his accent is killing me. Love from America 🇺🇸!!!
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
I'm a sexy voice lol
@jamesbutler5908
4 ай бұрын
The poor people in the uneducated working class areas workers killing workers and the psychological impact on the communities and still traumatized from all the psychological problems, it will take decades to heal the communities, and then the informers ,let us live as brothers and sisters or die as fools.....
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Brillant quote
@Sean-sn9ld
4 ай бұрын
Respect on working on your addiction Packy, nearly 3 years clean and serene myself ❤
@susanegittins6258
4 ай бұрын
God bless this man for being alive and telling his story and God bless you as well. You've a very delicate and genuine way about you that allows sharing the story. 🙏🇮🇪🇺🇸
@TheSubpremeState
3 ай бұрын
A guy wearing an antifa t-shirt. A communist in other words. Fighting to free us so we can be invaded by the third world who can't defend their own mothers lol
@Hipit55
4 ай бұрын
I thank you for your service Packy
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Your welcome no regrets for what I got involved in and apologised to a victim of an operation I was involved it was a civilian thats reason said sorry
@BillyBob-dz9rg
4 ай бұрын
How quick. Time moves on, when the host never seen no signaficance in the 12th of July. Felt good to giggle away finding it funny. Felt good
@seamus9750
4 ай бұрын
Wouldn't trust him to wire a plug today 😅
@TheNinyo77
4 ай бұрын
Must have been the only punk rock IRA man ever !!! He's a header ffs ,listening to somebody else talking about these ffs.
@GeoCe-ew9dk
4 ай бұрын
😂
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
@TheNinyo77 yes lol you waster
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
I was an mec and electrical engineer new my p and q s
@RobertOtoole-jo5bg
3 ай бұрын
I'd trust him to make 100 teenage homemakers in 48 hours ? What you think. He forgot his life time job lol
@jamgam4118
4 ай бұрын
Well done Packy great interview. knew you're family great people, fair play for staying strong!
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Thank you
@ConorBreslin-cz9eu
4 ай бұрын
Not that I celebrate the 12th of July, but when in the first few minutes and I heard the host / presenter displaying his lack of knowledge of the 12th of July, and the significance of it, his lack of self awareness of his own ignorance of the history of the war does not hinder his over confidence in doing a You Tube. Quite astonishing.
@HikeSafely-xc2bs
3 ай бұрын
His job is to ask questions and listen, not display erudition. Having said that, I was surprised too 😉
@mo6278
4 ай бұрын
Good man packy, one love 💥💥🍀🇮🇪😉
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Thank you
@melissabyrne8749
4 ай бұрын
75 says is a long time for anybody in addiction. Keep it in the day my friend 🤝🙏
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
I'm now 112 clean of coke which was hardest battle to overcome I found a higher power who is god
@terryh703
4 ай бұрын
Great interview👍 fair play packy, which you well in your recovery and in life 🇮🇪🍀👊
@andyrae7265
4 ай бұрын
Cracking interview Packie mo chara God Bless ❤🎉
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Grma a chara
@rambojp73
4 ай бұрын
Thank you Packy, proud of you! 🍀🇮🇪🏴🍀
@Utd_4Me
3 ай бұрын
Wanker
@ThomasRooney-tf1zl
4 ай бұрын
Great podcast packy,congratulations and keep looking forward
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
9 pints woo hoo alanama 3
@sleepwalker8600
4 ай бұрын
What’s the significance of the 12th? Spoken like a true Free Stater lol, I didn’t know much about it until I moved up one county but it’s certainly different, incidentally, marching season is starting in about an hour.
@ATLmodK
4 ай бұрын
After, stopping about 1:00 am this morning?
@antonyruddy3862
4 ай бұрын
Lol to right
@dowdallerno1
4 ай бұрын
FFS , what a question? Like asking an American what's the significance of the 4th of July. 🙄🤔😂😂
@aaronosheaarchery
4 ай бұрын
The significance is that it's my birthday
@Irishmush
4 ай бұрын
Every irish person should know the significance of the 12fth.. jaffa celebrates
@bunyip5841
4 ай бұрын
So much truth was suppressed during the Dirty War in the north of Ireland that the given history is lacking many perspectives. Podcasts like this one go a long way to addressing the gaps in history.
@Felix-rising
4 ай бұрын
Only if the guests are honest
@bunyip5841
4 ай бұрын
@@Felix-risingIf we manage to get as many perspectives as possible we may arrive at something resembling the truth and even some honesty.
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
It was stinking like brendan Hughes said
@markyinbelfastxx9088
4 ай бұрын
Hes on the verge of meeting his maker and he says he regrets nothing he done Justice coming soon
@oranbhoy67
4 ай бұрын
yes, A United Ireland Mo chara
@markyinbelfastxx9088
4 ай бұрын
@oranbhoy67 If that's the calibre of your legends then it's no wonder your a mess of a nation
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Mate I said sorry till a people who's son got ptsd in one my jobs
@markyinbelfastxx9088
4 ай бұрын
@belfastpunk2 your a mess of a human mate , you will answer for what you did tho
@Hipit55
Ай бұрын
You had to walk in his shoes in the 70s to judge him.
@Irishtinian494
4 ай бұрын
Packy.. 😅mad as ship's cat.... i used to go fishing with him manys a day back. . Good wee vol.
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
I've gear for ye free hugh
@Irishtinian494
4 ай бұрын
@belfastpunk2 aaaah packy.. comon ni... I fished with you and Hugh... was a good while back... lough erne.. I B.moynas bro in law.... was a long time ago... I hope youre well anyway my man.. stay on the path. ✌️ peace. [Edited].. free Palestine 🇵🇸.
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
@Killanazi484 yes I remember you I was some fisherman back in dAyvbiggest was 27.46 wasn't spawning never got a pic hook a massive salmon on glen was over 30 lb bAstard got away 😳
@Conorguill
2 ай бұрын
Did you actually not know the significance of the 12th July?!
@MrDyersy
4 ай бұрын
great show!
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Ti's
@BillyBob-dz9rg
4 ай бұрын
The more characters you see the plainer it is to see the ease in infiltrating them to the top Main man for 3 year this guy
@JohnMcMahon.
4 ай бұрын
Main man? Don’t talk shyte
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
I escaped a few times due to my awareness
@deadtopcat
4 ай бұрын
Not knowing the what the 12th is😳
@clario2178
4 ай бұрын
Respect Packy 🇮🇪
@Arthur54321
4 ай бұрын
Sad a man stands up for his country and ends up like this. I wonder how much he gave to his handlers who were feeding him the gear.
Packy: "Without People, You're Nothing," quoting Joe Strummer of The Clash who was a big inspiration for the boys of the 1970s. (And U2)
@gerardhenry5501
4 ай бұрын
I met Joe in a restaurant years back
@anthonydonlan3140
4 ай бұрын
U2 Anti IRA Pro Israeli.... Banality and leather trousers.
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Thanks mo cardie 😊
@fintonmainz7845
4 ай бұрын
@@gerardhenry5501 I was in a restaurant once
@gerardhenry5501
4 ай бұрын
@@fintonmainz7845 I seen you in it
@paddy.g4182
12 күн бұрын
Good on you packy 💯 i know you im from lesson st my mum 87 still lives their you would know us.🙏
@ZeusMyhero
3 ай бұрын
Here your BROTHER, BROTHER ❤️🇮🇪 TRUST ME BE VERY CAREFUL WAT U SAY IN THEM MEETING (MI5) and as for the 4th Step YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT, it was there STUFF THEY PUT ON YOU‼️❤️ just always REMEMBER THE 3rd STEP, and the most IMPORTANT STEP ?THE SIDE STEP” GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR SIN YOU TOOK ON FOR OURLAND- IRELAND 🇮🇪🔥 P.s ‘If “… only I was half the MAN you ARE❤️🇮🇪🙏😉🔥🔥🔥🔥
@killerk3925
4 ай бұрын
He takes it up the arse . Sure he was riding a littl loyalist rent boy for years
@JohnMcMahon.
4 ай бұрын
39:53, he’s talking about Mark Harbinson.
@markyinbelfastxx9088
4 ай бұрын
This quality of human being is what qualifies as a hero in republican communities
@markyinbelfastxx9088
4 ай бұрын
@garethcullen9604 nobody mate, I'm an adult
@edwardodonnell6857
3 ай бұрын
I commend Packy for reaching out to the loyalist side trying to understand his enemies perspective and worldview.That takes courage and the wisdom of life a need to understand the what’s and whys of his life narrative.Whatever the conflict if a solution can be found peacefully if lessons from war can be learned by future generations conflict resolution without armed force by diplomacy dialogue just May be possible.
@polsibhear
3 ай бұрын
Leg of lamb! I love our Irish knicknames 😂
@Ytwhna
17 күн бұрын
Question for the interviewer: you’ve done a lot of these with IRA members and British soldiers. Are you starting to get the impression that the British soldiers are better human beings? The IRA lot are coming across as common criminals who if it weren’t for the troubles would have been in prison anyway for something else.
@JohnMcMahon.
4 ай бұрын
14:58, Corrys timber yard.
@michaelmcmullan2300
3 ай бұрын
What a horrible individual
@seeingimages
4 ай бұрын
During the Troubles (late 1960s to late 1990s), the 12th July was often accompanied by riots and paramilitary violence. In 1972, three people were shot dead in Portadown and two people were killed in Belfast. Of the five in total, two were killed by Republican groups and three were killed by Loyalist groups.
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
You rock ill ignore neg comments mate love yer imput
@ZeusMyhero
23 күн бұрын
Love that Man” Yup fart
@tonyconnolly5385
Ай бұрын
Deeply unimpressive character, he could have skipped the bombs and brought the Brits to their knees with that bloody voice
@tonywatson1412
16 күн бұрын
Striking a blow for the freedom of Ireland...and blowing things up at the same time....yeah ... makes a lotto sense
@marcopolo3054
4 ай бұрын
Here packy have you ever tried thru hiking, multi day hikes with tents for example Wicklow way or Donegal or mournes say you would enjoy it.
@990drifter
4 ай бұрын
Stoneyford Loyalist Mark Harbinson, he's talking about
@jameslarkin8494
4 ай бұрын
Correct..
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
Correct
@matthewkavanah953
4 ай бұрын
Did Packy ever get his tell all book published?
@garethcullen9604
4 ай бұрын
Do your homework. This was actually embarrassing and disrespectful to Packy! I think you were badly stoned here.
@JayIowa
Күн бұрын
A cannibus habit!? Come on... No one gets a habit! It sounds like they just wanted an excuse to get rid of him!
@marcopolo3054
4 ай бұрын
3.29 🤣🤣 happens to me too packy… modus operandi
@soupbread7039
3 ай бұрын
There were a lot of similarities between Republicans and Loyalists. Mostly in the IQ department...
@Conorguill
2 ай бұрын
There’s no sign this lad is stupid. He is showing the signs of someone who had, as he mentioned, addiction issues
@Irishtinian494
4 ай бұрын
"An en i turned indy a punk and that made it fkng worse".. :wee packy . 😅
@gb5uq
2 ай бұрын
At the end of the day it was all for nothing, just look at what Ireland has become today. Crying shame.
@Felix-rising
4 ай бұрын
He was born in 1965 ? He been getting too high on his own supply
@cannibalholocaust3015
4 ай бұрын
“Can you talk me through the process of making a bo….” Yikes lad easy on !
@belfastpunk2
Ай бұрын
And to add to thia the attempted eacape from the crum where tractor got a puncture the brits all over it stinking
@therealpaddy4687
4 ай бұрын
You would want the world of drugs after growing up in all of that the British playing god with people's lives they have a lot to answer to. Thanks for your service Packy.
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
100 percent
@user-tb8cc4go4p
4 ай бұрын
WHO Michael Collins Hero or
@TheSubpremeState
3 ай бұрын
Is he a commie? Might skip this one. Antifa t-shirt. I new this was bad shy t to be listening to.
@briandoherty245
4 ай бұрын
Sorry but the 12th didn't mean anything to you!!!!!
@user-vo6oz2de9t
4 ай бұрын
Yeah that was one for the books .....
@JohnMcMahon.
4 ай бұрын
The 12th means nothing to 99.9% of the populations of UK & Ireland. No one cares.
@marcopolo3054
4 ай бұрын
Hahaha the ferret was that your nickname packy?
@fairlymajorstationno1298
Ай бұрын
HE seems to be touts in the brain
@mrcool71
3 ай бұрын
Could not build a bacon sandwich goat
@gerard1965able
4 ай бұрын
Anyone. no this coded wording, (1) head & shoulders,(2)happy hamburger day,(3)what's a leg between friends.
@mackfin8869
3 ай бұрын
F hell
@gerard1965able
3 ай бұрын
@@mackfin8869 hiya.
@gerardhenry5501
4 ай бұрын
Walter Mitty
@TruTHUGZ
20 күн бұрын
This guy is a mess
@papaann4
Ай бұрын
What an absolute Golem. I'm from Irish stock and love this Podcast but this was unwatchable.
@markdoyle6141
4 ай бұрын
Pure shite talk
@ardri31
3 ай бұрын
This comment? Yes it is
@billbo2117
4 ай бұрын
State a yee 😂 . Lower than a snakes belly !
@uppyoldskool6652
4 ай бұрын
So your a tout 🤣🤣🤣
@BrianBoru5523
23 күн бұрын
Ìmagine being a grown up and a communist!
@markyinbelfastxx9088
4 ай бұрын
State of this frog
@Irishtinian494
4 ай бұрын
Johnny adair is your hero ..right.
@markyinbelfastxx9088
4 ай бұрын
@@Irishtinian494 wise up u fool
@ardri31
3 ай бұрын
That you harbinson?
@glentoran04
4 ай бұрын
Why is he taking into a baked bean tin. The audio of him talking is terrible.
@jameslarkin8494
4 ай бұрын
Ignorance breeds ignorance in your case.. Grow up..
@belfastpunk2
4 ай бұрын
@james correct
@fintonmainz7845
4 ай бұрын
Dentures and a strong accent. Clean your ears and you'll manage
@NAKEDTRUTHMe
4 ай бұрын
It’s just normal Belfast accent
@nealcorken
4 ай бұрын
Glad to see his evil deeds are catching up with now ! Looking at the state of him yeaoo ftp 🇬🇧
@northernsegageorge6510
4 ай бұрын
He seems whacked out on drugs. No doubt living on British benefits and enjoy British funded nhs.
@Irishmush
4 ай бұрын
@@northernsegageorge6510 he wouldn't be getting brit money. Should be getting paid in euro like the REST of IRELAND 🇮🇪 32
@Oddly1970
4 ай бұрын
@@IrishmushKeep dreaming Northern Ireland will always be British 🇬🇧
@albertarthurparsnips5141
4 ай бұрын
Roar on Meg ! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
@therealpaddy4687
4 ай бұрын
Wait until the next vote biggest party on the Island they were ahead of their time they knew it was going to happen just Pity they won't all get to see 32 It wasn't in vain boy's thank you for your service Pira
@oliverscarlettmackenzie5136
Ай бұрын
i can't even look at this anomoly. He's a mutant
@NAKEDTRUTHMe
4 ай бұрын
They didn’t like the drugs . That’s what funded the loyalists
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