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	Podcast:		In Focus Podcast
	Episode:		The IRA’s ‘swim to freedom’ from Belfast’s infamous prison ship
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:25:50
	Publish Date:		2025-01-19 01:05:00
	Description:		HMS Maidstone, an ex-Royal Navy Ship, was used in the early 1970s to hold internees. In January 1972, a group of IRA prisoners swam 270 meters through an ice-cold Belfast Lough in a bid to escape, greasing themselves in butter to squeeze out of the ship’s portholes. They then hijacked a double-decker bus before slipping across the border, humiliating the authorities. Today’s Indo Daily comes from our sister podcast ‘The BelTel’. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by James Durney, author of ‘Jailbreak: Great Irish Republican escapes’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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