Seán Savage

And information had been received about those three people in detail, who they were, what they were going to do, and in the end, when they were going to do it, because there was initially a big question mark over the last of those things.

Those three people were all known to be frontline IRA operatives, Sean Savage, Daniel McCann, and Mairead Farrell.

And were they followed all the way from Northern Ireland to Gibraltar? What was the sort of in- s- surveillance picture and, and when did you, as the SAS, get involved?

We knew, we'd been briefed that there had been and, and was surveillance, not all the time, but part of the time in Spain, uh, ag- against these, uh, three members of, w- who made up the Active Service Unit for the IRA.

So that was a, a key man who was basically in charge, um, a, a known shooter and a known bomber.

And then, uh, you had this woman called Mairead Farrell, who'd already done, done time in, in prison, uh, for the bombing of the, of the Conway Hotel in Belfast, um, who was a close associate of the McCanns.

And then the third person was Sean Savage, uh, who was a known, a known bomb-maker.

Those were the three people who made up the so-called Active Service Unit, ASU.

Halfway through the ceremony, the second coffin was lowered.

The family of 23-year-old Sean Savage looked on.

The silence turned to mayhem.

grenades, pistol shots were ringing