9 episodes
GUBU The Irish Times
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- True Crime
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4.6 • 102 Ratings
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GUBU tells the story of killer Malcolm Macarthur and how his crimes impacted the government of Taoiseach Charles Haughey. Coming soon from Harry McGee of The Irish Times.
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Bonus episode: Veteran reporters remember the GUBU summer of 1982
Two veteran journalists, Stephen Collins and Joe Joyce, sit down with Irish Times political correspondent Harry McGee to talk about how they remember the shocking events of 1982 that were sparked by murderer Malcolm Macarthur and that impacted Irish politics and the man at its centre, Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey.
This bonus episode was recorded to mark the publication of a book that builds on GUBU, the podcast. The Taoiseach and the Murderer by Harry McGee is available now.
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Episode seven: The trial
Malcolm Macarthur is convicted but the scandal and conspiracy theories continues.
What becomes of Malcolm Macarthur, and the two other people drawn into his murders, Charles Haughey and Patrick Connolly? What ultimately motivated Macarthur to do what he did: to kill two young strangers during the sweltering summer of 1982.
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Episode six: The fallout
Macarthur’s arrest in the home of the Attorney General creates an international political storm.
Episode six of seven.
GUBU is researched, reported and narrated by Harry McGee and edited by Enda O'Dowd.
Sound mix by JJ Vernon
Title music by Orakhal
Graphics by Paul Scott
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Episode five: The arrest
Malcolm Macarthur seeks refuge in the home of his friend Patrick Connolly. He is driven around in a State car. But gardaí have now established the connection with the Attorney General and move in to arrest him.
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Episode four: The hunt
The trail to find the aristocratic killer moves to the south of Dublin City, to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire. The net closes after a ham-fisted attempt by Malcolm Macarthur to burgle an American diplomat.
Episode four of seven.
GUBU is researched, reported and narrated by Harry McGee and edited by Enda O'Dowd.
Sound mix by JJ Vernon
Title music by Orakhal
Graphics by Paul Scott
irishtimes.com/podcasts/gubu
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Episode three: The Taoiseach and the murderer
Who was Malcom Macarthur and what was his connection to Charles J Haughey, Taoiseach of Ireland? How did Macarthur befriend Patrick Connolly, Ireland’s top law officer? To understand the story, we need to understand the politics of 1980s Ireland.
Episode three of seven.
GUBU is researched, reported and narrated by Harry McGee and edited by Enda O'Dowd.
Sound mix by JJ Vernon
Title music by Orakhal
Graphics by Paul Scott
irishtimes.com/podcasts/gubu
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Customer Reviews
GUBU
As a child of the 70s so much of this early 80s history seemed familiar but understandably was kept from us as kids. I loved this podcast! Harry McGee’s artful story telling of this grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented story is gripping!
Loved it
Harry McGee did an incredible job on this podcast. I look forward to more from him in future.
Good
Interesting subject which I remember from growing up, and all the hullabaloo at the time. Podcast does a good job but it’s the small things that grate though, and I just don’t really get the need for ‘bigging up’ the credits to the Carter and Reagan Libraries at the end of each episode for what was essentially a few brief interludes of recordings of about 10-20 seconds.