Bolton funnyman Peter Kay dropped an enormous bombshell when he revealed that while visiting his mum’s household in Northern Eire, he was given IRA propaganda on an outdated VHS tape

Peter Kay has informed how he was shocked to be handed IRA propaganda by a cousin on a visit to go to his Northern Irish-born mum’s household throughout the Troubles. The Phoenix Nights star was additionally given a video which he later found contained footage of the republican terror group coaching.

Peter, 52, was born and raised in Farnworth, close to Bolton in Lancashire, however his mom Deirdre – nee O’Neill – is initially from Coalisland, Co Tyrone. He stated: “Inevitably a few of my cousins’ heads have been severely turned by the Troubles. I suppose it was laborious to not be caught up within the pleasure which was round them on a regular basis.

“They cherished telling me tales and exhibiting me sights. I discovered the macabre of all of it fascinating. One cousin drove me as much as Belfast the place we cruised the Falls Highway as he performed ‘Homicide Included’ by Bruce Springsteen on his automotive stereo. He was entranced by the Troubles.

“He even shoved a load of IRA magazines in my suitcase simply earlier than we left,” he continued. “My mum discovered them and misplaced her thoughts – throwing them on granny’s hearth.

“‘In the event that they’d discovered these on the airport we’d have been strip-searched.’ She wasn’t fallacious.

“Nonetheless, my mum failed to note the VHS tape my cousin had stashed beneath my drawing pad on the backside of the case,” he recalled. In his new ebook Peter Kay’s Diary, he stated he was “practically sick with shock” after watching the “disturbing” recording.

He revealed: “After I received again to Bolton I anxiously slid the video within the recorder and pressed play. My mum was out. The very first thing I noticed was the opening headlines of the BBC’s 9 O’clock Information reporting an incident that had taken place in Coalisland.

“Members of the IRA had pushed into the centre of the city and fired on the British Military barracks with a machine gun mounted on the again of a lorry. The IRA have been within the strategy of abandoning their assault autos after they have been ambushed by a British Military detachment that had been mendacity in await them, primarily composed of troopers from the Particular Air Service, who engaged sustained computerized hearth with them.

4 IRA members between the ages of 19 and 23 have been fatally wounded. “Then the video I used to be watching lower from Peter Sissons studying the BBC information to a shot of an open-top coffin and the physique of one of many youngest IRA members specified by a entrance room.

“The camcorder then slowly panned round his corpse. I used to be practically sick with shock. It then lower to photographs of a funeral.”

He remembered that a whole bunch of mourners had gathered in Coalisland together with Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams who walked behind the coffins. “After the funeral procession, there was about an hour of IRA coaching footage within the countryside someplace with numerous insurgent songs dubbed excessive; then the recording ended.

“I used to be speechless. Years later I informed my mum in regards to the tape. She shook her head in disgust. I’d since thrown it within the bin.

“It was disturbing viewing,” he insisted. “The one good factor to return out of that complete horrible incident was that my cousin stated it pressured him ‘to clever up and switch his again on such mindlessness’.”

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