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The Squad and the Cairo Gang: Dublin's Intelligence War
In the tense years of the Irish War of Independence, a secret war raged in Dublin's streets. Michael Collins, the IRA's director of intelligence, built a shadowy unit known as 'the Squad' — twelve men tasked with eliminating British intelligence operatives. This episode tells the story of that deadly game of cat and mouse: the Cairo Gang, a ring of British agents sent to destroy the IRA's network; and the bloodiest Sunday of the conflict, 21 November 1920, when Collins struck first. We follow the planning, the executions, and the terrible retaliation at Croke Park…
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