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Veterans Meet The IRA

Posted on 13 February 202313 February 2023 by Chris Thrall

Veterans Meet The IRA, features Kenny Thomas who served with The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment across the world & in Northern Ireland.

Veterans Meet The IRA

Veterans Meet The Former lRA features Kenny Williams who served with The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment. After teaming up with Veterans For Peace, Kenny and colleagues went to Northern Ireland to meet up with some old adversaries.

Transcript from ‘Veterans Meet The IRA’ podcast

Kenny – The minute we got off the aircraft we were met by Shaun. He’s in the Republican ex-prisoner support group. We sat down with a cup of tea in Belfast airport and he said, look guys, you’re completely safe. Everyone wants to meet you. You’ve got nothing to worry about, all right boys? We were like, okay, cool, let’s go. It was straight to Derry. I mean literally getting a car and boom, straight to Derry.

Then on the video you can see my eyes are like, bloody hell you know? It’s freaking hell and I’m I’m sat down with the victims of Bloody Sunday. The guy says look, we’re not political or anything here and this is what the community went through. He showed us where the rounds went off on the bog side.