Former TD ‘chuckled’ about IRA executions

Chilling tapes of a late Fianna Fáil TD chuckling about torturing, executing and secretly burying suspected spies during the War of Independence are set to be aired for the first time in a television documentary.

Martin Corry served in the Dáil for 40 years before his death in 1979, but old interview tapes unearthed in a TV3 series reveal how he relished his role as chief IRA executioner in a medieval torture vault named Sing Sing outside the village of Knockraha in Cork.

During the programme In the Name of the Republic, the veteran Dáil deputy is heard recalling capturing, killing, and burying countless bodies in a nearby bog known as The Rea in previously unheard recordings obtained by investigating historian Eunan O’Halpin.