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    03/06/2021 - NEWS - Charlie Bird retired former RTE Journalist and Willie McGee, retired head of the fraud squad with news papers from December 1979 through to February 1980 which contain ads used by the state to communicate with a foot and mouth disease ransom demand at the time. Colm Keena Piece. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

    Ransom ’79 with Charlie Bird – Episode 2

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    In the second of three episodes, Charlie Bird continues the sensational story of an attempt to extort five million pounds from the Irish government in 1979 by threatening to unleash an epidemic of Foot & Mouth Disease.

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