Fifty Dead Men Walking Quotes

“How do I look, Marty?’ he would say”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Palace Barracks, Holywood, a secure army base where British army families live during their tour of duty in the Province. The”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Hamilton and McCarthy have since become the most trusted henchmen of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, employed as his personal bodyguards. ”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“bomb on the footpath used by RUC foot patrols, and then use the AKM to machine-gun them.  As the newsreader read the last few words, I felt tears come to my eyes, knowing that some poor kids could have been caught up in it, hurt, maimed or even worse.  I felt so angry that the IRA could put the lives of kids, kids like mine, in such danger that, at that moment, I didn’t care what the IRA did to me. The”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“If you have any of those stupid women wanting to act as heroines by throwing themselves in front of the soldiers, take no fucking notice. Just shoot them. I’m not going to let any Brit’s whore fuck up an opportunity like this.’ One”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“You could tell by looking at them they were all fucking British squaddies.’ I”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Later, claiming responsibility for the killing, the IRA said the man had been killed because he was supplying the Security Forces with fruit and vegetables.  McVeigh would not be the only person to die for such a tenuous reason – many businessmen would be murdered in cold blood for similar ‘activities’. Throughout”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“The Catholic Bishop Cahal Daly, describing the abduction as ‘repugnant’ and ‘an outrage to all humanitarian feelings”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“I realised that my life was at risk; yet I knew that I could not permit an innocent man or woman to be targeted and murdered without trying everything in my power to stop it. ”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“It’s not only us who need your help, it’s all those other poor bastards who might be on the receiving end.”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“And a few hundred people, who risked their lives working for the Government or the RUC, have been pulled out of the Province because their undercover work had been detected by the IRA.  It is always necessary in such situations to pull out the person immediately, and often their families as well, and re-settle them in different locations throughout the mainland.  They are then given houses or apartments, new identities and sometimes a job.  Often, as the IRA keeps up its attempts to find and target these families, they have to be moved three or four times in an effort to keep them one step ahead of the gunmen.  I understand that these rescue missions, which are still carried out, have so far cost the British taxpayer between £75-£100 million.”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Consequently, many of those who agreed to hide weapons were widows or young, unmarried mothers who desperately needed the money. Most”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“These funds had been built up over many years, mainly from North American sources sympathetic to the cause of a united Ireland, and it seemed that the money never entered the Republic of Ireland or the Province, but would be invested mainly in Europe. There was also income from protection rackets, bank robberies, post office raids, black taxis, DSS scams, video and CD pirating, fruit machines, republican clubs and pubs and local collections among sympathisers. ”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Throughout my years inside the IRA, there was always a desperate shortage of good-quality, modern hand-guns.  The IRA had ample supplies of AK-47s, hundreds of which had been supplied virtually free of charge by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) and Colonel Gaddafi of Libya. A”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“One IRA man, a schoolteacher, has a part-time job and is employed and paid a monthly wage by the intelligence wing of the IRA Belfast Brigade, spending his spare time feeding information into a computer; details of thousands of men and women whom the IRA believe that it might want to target at some future date. Every”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“It seems that the great majority of these men and women are still employed in the organisations, and are capable of handing over information which would put their targets at risk from attack. ”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“One example of how closely the two work together was revealed during the British Parliamentary or local Northern Ireland elections.  During the years, I would become involved in helping the Sinn Fein cause, along with many other young men and women, many of whom were members of the IRA. From their headquarters in Connolly House, Belfast, Sinn Fein organisers would try, with the assistance of the IRA, to do everything in their power to rig the elections.  The plan would be to distribute false identification papers to IRA men and women and other republican sympathisers, and send them around to a number of polling stations so that they could cast votes in perhaps six to ten different places. The”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Over recent years, it has been extraordinary to hear the Sinn Fein leadership declaring to British and American politicians, as well as the media, that they had no knowledge of the decisions taken by the IRA Army Council, while both Adams and McGuinness were Council members. The”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“During my years inside the IRA, a number of senior provo intelligence officers confirmed to me that, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, McGuinness had been Head of the IRA Northern Command, one of the most senior positions throughout the entire IRA organisation. More disgracefully and, I would suggest, more sickening, was the fact that McGuinness was widely known in the ‘Derry area of Northern Ireland to have been responsible for the loss of several people’s lives, as well as being the authority behind many savage punishment beatings. Over”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Adams held the position of Officer Commanding the 2nd Battalion, a total of 52 people were murdered, including soldiers, police and civilians.  As a result of those ‘successes’, Adams was promoted, becoming Commander of the IRA’s foremost operational command, the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade, with three Battalions under his authority. I”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Despite denying any link between the two organisations, Adams himself was not only President of Sinn Fein but was also a member of the seven-man Provisional IRA Army Council,”
― Martin McGartland, Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army