Ray Clark's February 2015 Interview with
Part Two with Added Commentary
This is our own Part Two of Ray Clark's February 2013 interview with Ian Cowper Ross which was originally published in two parts here.
KEY:
RED = Ray Clark
BLACK = Ian Cowper Ross
BLUE = Commentary preceded by date of added comment.
4/11/2021: [Continued Commentary and original interview from our own Part One.] Because Ian Cowper Ross had tripped-up upon his own fictitious rendering of events, he then offered Ray Clark this explanation:
IAN COWPER ROSS: It was too long ago. A key ingredient of all this was that Ronan's father owned a private port on the east coast (of Ireland) not very far north of Dublin called Port Greenore, and without Greenore this couldn't have happened. Where would you have fitted out the ship? There wasn't anywhere.
4/11/2021: This is factually untrue and this has been previously explained in great detail in previous editions of a Blog found here on 10/2/2020, and continued in related editions. Therefore we will not repeat all of the evidence on this Blog.
IAN COWPER ROSS: He (Ronan) had been to Galveston, he'd bought the equipment, the mast - a 200 ft. mast, all this massive stuff which probably did cost a heck of a lot of money - it had to be shipped somewhere.
4/11/2021: Back in the 1970s we discovered that Ronan O'Rahilly went via London to New York to Houston, Texas in June 1963, because there were no regularly scheduled direct flights at that time. At the time that Ronan O'Rahilly went to Houston in June 1963, he had only just met Allan James Crawford, and Ian Cowper Ross. When he got there he was met by Charles W. Weaver who was the manager of McLendon's Houston station KILT, and General Sales Manager for all of the McLendon stations. He was also the person managing control of the ship called 'Mi Amigo' which had been anchored in the Baltic and then in the North Sea during 1962. It was Weaver who went to Stockholm and shut down 'Radio Nord'.
When the ship arrived at Galveston island in March 1963, all of the transmission equipment that had been part of the radio station on board the vessel, as well as the former studio equipment in the Stockholm office which had also been loaded on to the Mi Amigo, was removed and taken to Houston where it was put into storage for use as spares by other McLendon stations. Ronan O'Rahilly bought none of it. His job was to see if Crawford could lease the ship and its equipment, but Weaver said "No". He had been told to sell the ship and its equipment in 1962, while it was still in European waters. It is clear that whatever Ian Cowper Ross heard about this visit by Ronan O'Rahilly, it was second-hand information and Ross had no first-hand knowledge.
IAN COWPER ROSS: Greenore was the only place, if you think about it, and the ship was sailed to Port Greenore; the equipment was taken to Port Greenore; and we used to go there. We used to fly in this plane, for various reasons... I mean it was really a joyride. One of the things that people can't really get now - and Ronan is a much more serious character, from what I gather, than in those days - probably we all ought to be - I am not all that serious - but I just remember it being a piss-take and a laugh from start to finish. We had such a funny time, and it was such good fun, and Ronan was so funny and amusing and all the rest of it. And his family and all the Irish that we used to see when we went over there - all crazy! And all driving around at 150 mph, you know ....
4/11/2021: This apocryphal story about flying around comes from the Ian Cowper Ross novel. So he is again delving into that storyline and cherry-picking bits to claim are real and not fiction. But he offers no details, except to claim he was "driving around at 150 mph, you know ...." Well, we don't know because one thing that would have been impossible back then due to narrow country roads was to drive around the Greenore area "at 150 miles per hour" - even though Ian Cowper Ross was a reckless driver who had caused accidents to both a motorbike and a sports car due to such behavior. In this instance there was a matter of geography that would have caused a more practical approach to motoring.
IAN COWPER ROSS: ".... and we went to see the ship. I may have made this up but I think there were people in balaclavas at the gate, you know, who had guns. I think - but I may be wrong. I don't want to get in trouble (laughs). This was before the whole serious stuff, you know.
4/11/2021: Here, Ian Cowper Ross is hedging his bets. He knows he is spinning lies by claiming that fiction is fact, but even if he was ever at Greenore, for which we have to follow the light plane crash story in the novel for details, then he would remember if he had been confronted at the gate by someone concealing the image of his head and carrying a gun. That is one of those events that would not have been an everyday occurrence for Ian Cowper Ross and it would have created a lasting memory.
IAN COWPER ROSS: Ronan's father was Chairman of Bord na Móna - Aodogán. His grandfather was The O'Rahilly and Ronan's father was Aodogán. He was Chairman of Bord na Móna. He was a great friend of de Valera. This was republican aristocracy. So Ronan had these tremendous credentials - legitimate credentials - and I don't think that appealed very much to the government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home when the sh*t hit the fan.
4/11/2021: Again, we refer you back to the site found here that was created on 10/2/2020 for details about the life and times of both Aodogán O'Rahilly and Ronan O'Rahilly's grandfather.
IAN COWPER ROSS: There was one diversion into a terrific piece of actual piracy that he - or we - perpetrated on these Radio Atlanta characters... They came along, unfortunately. Before we were ready. This Australian person called Allan Crawford had had the same idea and he'd bought a ready-made radio ship and it was sailing towards our designated pitch off - you know - wherever it was - off Harwich. And this was a crisis. A real crisis. And I think Ronan was ‘inlanding’ Allan on various levels to try to get him to cool it.
4/11/2021: Remember, Allan James Crawford says that he first met Ronan O'Rahilly around the same time that Ronan O'Rahilly first met Ian Cowper Ross, which was approximately March 1963. Remember too that Ronan O'Rahilly was sent to Houston, Texas via New York in June 1963, by Allan James Crawford. So whatever Ian Cowper Ross is telling Ray Clark, it is not coming from his own first-hand knowledge and it is more than likely, since he again refers back to his novel for source material, that he is just making stuff up to tell Ray Clark, and not being an investigative journalist, Ray Clark is accepting what he is being told as fact, when in reality, it is fiction.
IAN COWPER ROSS: Allan had really extraordinarily bad taste in music. He used to do cover versions. Oddly enough his main guy who did these covers was Elvis Costello's dad. I don't know if you know that.
RAY CLARK: Yes, Ross McManus wasn't it?
IAN COWPER ROSS: Yes. McManus. He used to cover Elvis (Presley) records. Allan said “Elvis can't sing in tune” so he made all these cover versions.
4/11/2021: This 'put-down' of Crawford is ridiculous. He had a long-established history in the music publishing business and personally favored a more 'serious kind' of classical music. But Ross McManus was a very credible musician who also had a long history of employment by major record companies and the BBC.
IAN COWPER ROSS: His great launch programme (on Radio Atlanta) was going to be called Mid-Morning Musicale. We thought “if that happened, forget it! We're out of business right away.”
4/11/2021: This also comes from the novel, but here Ian Cowper Ross forgets his own storyline. Because if Crawford had run into a programming disaster with Radio Atlanta, why would he care? He was supposed to be talking about a separate venture called Radio Caroline.
IAN COWPER ROSS: But, as fate would have it, this ship gets in a storm and its mast gets blown down. It's in serious trouble and they have no recourse but to play into the very hands of, really, their enemy - and they sail for Port Greenore. And that was the end of that as far as they were concerned. I think some crane dropped a concrete block on (their ship), you know, accidentally, and they were out of action for quite a long time (laughs).
4/11/2021: His laughter conceals his lack of knowledge because when that happened the mv Fredericia had no mast! It was Wijsmuller who were taking the mv Fredericia to a dock on the Isle of Wight for Harry Spencer to rig its mast and antenna, and then, while the ship was on route, the Captain was ordered to change course and sail for Greenore, Ireland. When the mv Mi Amigo suffered storm damage to its mast, it had already left Greenore and it had to put in for emergency repairs at Falmouth, England! Ian Cowper Ross is making stuff up as he goes along!
RAY CLARK: So the original plan wasn't for that ship to go to Greenore at all then. It was to go straight off to station.
IAN COWPER ROSS: No. None of this would have happened in the way it did happen - or, I don't think, in the way that we would have wished it to happen - if they hadn't got blown off course and got caught in a storm and had to come to Greenore, whereupon they were in Ronan's power. Then he could control the situation and we made a deal with them to have the two ships... We had Caroline North and Caroline South - the Mi Amigo, that was the name of the other ship and our ship was the Caroline, and we were Radio Caroline South - oh actually, funnily enough no, we sailed north. I remember sailing north. We went north. Me and Chris went north. Everybody turned on their headlights as we went up. This is afterwards. I'm getting ahead of myself.
4/11/2021: Now Ian Cowper Ross is confusing himself by ad-libbing his own fibbing.
IAN COWPER ROSS: So, anyway, the ship gets on station and I think the Mi Amigo was still effectively impounded so we had a clear run. We had this press conference. That was another tremendous piece of comedy because our offices originally were in Queen magazine's building in Fetter Lane. Jocelyn sort of had this highly ambivalent attitude towards the whole project, and the public in general, but he was the chairman of it - or he wasn't - and he wanted to be incognito. We had this press conference where he appeared in his British warm overcoat and a trilby pulled over his face! As if the whole press corps didn't know who he was! Jocelyn Stevens - the heir-apparent to the Mirror building. I think he was the godson of (chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers) Cecil King. His building could look up at the Mirror building. He was a proper Fleet Street mogul. He was a Harmsworth and of the other family, you know... Hulton - Hulton and Harmsworth. He was a blue-blooded Fleet Street press baron, anyway, incognito according to him!
4/11/2021: The first programs heard on Radio Caroline were recorded in a studio at 47 Dean Street, home of Project Atlanta Limited and Allan James Crawford. The first Radio Caroline DJs were trained by Australian staff hired by Allan James Crawford. There was no "Radio Caroline" company, and its airtime sales company was only registered in Ireland during February 1964. The address given out on air and printed on its first literature was a convenience address on Regent Street. There were no "offices" inside the tiny premises used by Stevens Press Limited on Fetter Lane. Ian Cowper Ross is deliberately hiding the true relationship with Jocelyn Stevens who told the press that he was representing Radio Caroline. The very name 'Caroline' had been 'borrowed' from the 'Queen' magazine style sheet, and this was confirmed by reputable sources at the time!
IAN COWPER ROSS: (Irish accent) “Come on everybody”. So Ronan appears with this enormous radio and all these Fleet Street hacks are sat there drinking and he switches it on - nothing. Nothing happens. It was a complete fiasco. (Irish accent) “Oh hang on a minute, it will be...” and it turned out that because Fetter Lane is surrounded, literally, by the Mirror building and all these steel structures, there was no signal. Our signal was not reaching Fetter Lane and that seemed a bloody disaster. So myself and Bunty, we set off in... this may have happened before actually - I may have got this the wrong way round - we went in the MG.
We whizzed around Kent and Sussex and Simon Dee was on board with Chris. I remember the call-sign was ‘ding-ding 199’ and the code word was ‘genius’ and he would play Ray Charles. He would play I've Got News For You I think or it may have been Night Time is the Right Time and we would pick this up and the call sign was ‘genius’. That meant Ray Charles. So we whizz around Kent and Sussex in the night, listening to this thing. Sure enough, the signal was absolutely fine. The only problem was that Simon Dee had refused to go on the air and locked himself in his cabin. So Chris had to do the whole thing by himself, including pulling the switch and, if you think about it, that was a revolution. It was a revolutionary act to pull that switch.
He tied the ship's bell round Simon's neck. He got a spoon and he hit the bell like that. The sound of the call-sign is him hitting the bell round Simon Dee's neck with this spoon - who had failed to be a proper revolutionary - thought he was going to be put in prison (laughs). It was unbelievably funny. There wasn't anything wrong with the signal. It just didn't reach Fetter Lane. So Ronan then did one of his many acts of genius. He got his hands on this MP, a Welsh chap. I remember he had one arm. He somehow was prevailed upon to get up in the House of Commons and say to the Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, “what are you going to do about these pop radio pirates off the North Sea on this thing called Radio Caroline?” which no one had ever heard of until that moment.
And there was an uproar that some illegal person was broadcasting into the British Isles from a ship off the three mile limit - it was three miles in those days - and they were all horrified. They played precisely into Ronan's hands. They sent a gun boat, if you please, they sent a gun boat which came out to the ship; went round and round the ship. Everybody's going like this, people were throwing bottles of beer to the sailors and back, the sailors were laughing, you know “what are they going to do? Are they going to blow it out of the water?” and of course it hit the headlines just as Ronan would have wished and everybody knew about it suddenly. Like that. Sir Alec sent the gunboat.
4/11/2021: Ian Cowper Ross now begins playing up the mythology of Ronan O'Rahilly to such an extent that his fables are now clashing with the documented events as reported in the press at the time, and with the geopolitical interpretations as reported by the so-called 'quality press' in the UK. It was reported quite accurately why the mv Fredericia was anchored off the coast of south east England and which set of laws it was testing.
KEY:
RED = Ray Clark
BLACK = Ian Cowper Ross
BLUE = Commentary preceded by date of added comment.
4/11/2021: [Continued Commentary and original interview from our own Part One.] Because Ian Cowper Ross had tripped-up upon his own fictitious rendering of events, he then offered Ray Clark this explanation:
IAN COWPER ROSS: It was too long ago. A key ingredient of all this was that Ronan's father owned a private port on the east coast (of Ireland) not very far north of Dublin called Port Greenore, and without Greenore this couldn't have happened. Where would you have fitted out the ship? There wasn't anywhere.
4/11/2021: This is factually untrue and this has been previously explained in great detail in previous editions of a Blog found here on 10/2/2020, and continued in related editions. Therefore we will not repeat all of the evidence on this Blog.
IAN COWPER ROSS: He (Ronan) had been to Galveston, he'd bought the equipment, the mast - a 200 ft. mast, all this massive stuff which probably did cost a heck of a lot of money - it had to be shipped somewhere.
4/11/2021: Back in the 1970s we discovered that Ronan O'Rahilly went via London to New York to Houston, Texas in June 1963, because there were no regularly scheduled direct flights at that time. At the time that Ronan O'Rahilly went to Houston in June 1963, he had only just met Allan James Crawford, and Ian Cowper Ross. When he got there he was met by Charles W. Weaver who was the manager of McLendon's Houston station KILT, and General Sales Manager for all of the McLendon stations. He was also the person managing control of the ship called 'Mi Amigo' which had been anchored in the Baltic and then in the North Sea during 1962. It was Weaver who went to Stockholm and shut down 'Radio Nord'.
When the ship arrived at Galveston island in March 1963, all of the transmission equipment that had been part of the radio station on board the vessel, as well as the former studio equipment in the Stockholm office which had also been loaded on to the Mi Amigo, was removed and taken to Houston where it was put into storage for use as spares by other McLendon stations. Ronan O'Rahilly bought none of it. His job was to see if Crawford could lease the ship and its equipment, but Weaver said "No". He had been told to sell the ship and its equipment in 1962, while it was still in European waters. It is clear that whatever Ian Cowper Ross heard about this visit by Ronan O'Rahilly, it was second-hand information and Ross had no first-hand knowledge.
IAN COWPER ROSS: Greenore was the only place, if you think about it, and the ship was sailed to Port Greenore; the equipment was taken to Port Greenore; and we used to go there. We used to fly in this plane, for various reasons... I mean it was really a joyride. One of the things that people can't really get now - and Ronan is a much more serious character, from what I gather, than in those days - probably we all ought to be - I am not all that serious - but I just remember it being a piss-take and a laugh from start to finish. We had such a funny time, and it was such good fun, and Ronan was so funny and amusing and all the rest of it. And his family and all the Irish that we used to see when we went over there - all crazy! And all driving around at 150 mph, you know ....
4/11/2021: This apocryphal story about flying around comes from the Ian Cowper Ross novel. So he is again delving into that storyline and cherry-picking bits to claim are real and not fiction. But he offers no details, except to claim he was "driving around at 150 mph, you know ...." Well, we don't know because one thing that would have been impossible back then due to narrow country roads was to drive around the Greenore area "at 150 miles per hour" - even though Ian Cowper Ross was a reckless driver who had caused accidents to both a motorbike and a sports car due to such behavior. In this instance there was a matter of geography that would have caused a more practical approach to motoring.
IAN COWPER ROSS: ".... and we went to see the ship. I may have made this up but I think there were people in balaclavas at the gate, you know, who had guns. I think - but I may be wrong. I don't want to get in trouble (laughs). This was before the whole serious stuff, you know.
4/11/2021: Here, Ian Cowper Ross is hedging his bets. He knows he is spinning lies by claiming that fiction is fact, but even if he was ever at Greenore, for which we have to follow the light plane crash story in the novel for details, then he would remember if he had been confronted at the gate by someone concealing the image of his head and carrying a gun. That is one of those events that would not have been an everyday occurrence for Ian Cowper Ross and it would have created a lasting memory.
IAN COWPER ROSS: Ronan's father was Chairman of Bord na Móna - Aodogán. His grandfather was The O'Rahilly and Ronan's father was Aodogán. He was Chairman of Bord na Móna. He was a great friend of de Valera. This was republican aristocracy. So Ronan had these tremendous credentials - legitimate credentials - and I don't think that appealed very much to the government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home when the sh*t hit the fan.
4/11/2021: Again, we refer you back to the site found here that was created on 10/2/2020 for details about the life and times of both Aodogán O'Rahilly and Ronan O'Rahilly's grandfather.
IAN COWPER ROSS: There was one diversion into a terrific piece of actual piracy that he - or we - perpetrated on these Radio Atlanta characters... They came along, unfortunately. Before we were ready. This Australian person called Allan Crawford had had the same idea and he'd bought a ready-made radio ship and it was sailing towards our designated pitch off - you know - wherever it was - off Harwich. And this was a crisis. A real crisis. And I think Ronan was ‘inlanding’ Allan on various levels to try to get him to cool it.
4/11/2021: Remember, Allan James Crawford says that he first met Ronan O'Rahilly around the same time that Ronan O'Rahilly first met Ian Cowper Ross, which was approximately March 1963. Remember too that Ronan O'Rahilly was sent to Houston, Texas via New York in June 1963, by Allan James Crawford. So whatever Ian Cowper Ross is telling Ray Clark, it is not coming from his own first-hand knowledge and it is more than likely, since he again refers back to his novel for source material, that he is just making stuff up to tell Ray Clark, and not being an investigative journalist, Ray Clark is accepting what he is being told as fact, when in reality, it is fiction.
IAN COWPER ROSS: Allan had really extraordinarily bad taste in music. He used to do cover versions. Oddly enough his main guy who did these covers was Elvis Costello's dad. I don't know if you know that.
RAY CLARK: Yes, Ross McManus wasn't it?
IAN COWPER ROSS: Yes. McManus. He used to cover Elvis (Presley) records. Allan said “Elvis can't sing in tune” so he made all these cover versions.
4/11/2021: This 'put-down' of Crawford is ridiculous. He had a long-established history in the music publishing business and personally favored a more 'serious kind' of classical music. But Ross McManus was a very credible musician who also had a long history of employment by major record companies and the BBC.
IAN COWPER ROSS: His great launch programme (on Radio Atlanta) was going to be called Mid-Morning Musicale. We thought “if that happened, forget it! We're out of business right away.”
4/11/2021: This also comes from the novel, but here Ian Cowper Ross forgets his own storyline. Because if Crawford had run into a programming disaster with Radio Atlanta, why would he care? He was supposed to be talking about a separate venture called Radio Caroline.
IAN COWPER ROSS: But, as fate would have it, this ship gets in a storm and its mast gets blown down. It's in serious trouble and they have no recourse but to play into the very hands of, really, their enemy - and they sail for Port Greenore. And that was the end of that as far as they were concerned. I think some crane dropped a concrete block on (their ship), you know, accidentally, and they were out of action for quite a long time (laughs).
4/11/2021: His laughter conceals his lack of knowledge because when that happened the mv Fredericia had no mast! It was Wijsmuller who were taking the mv Fredericia to a dock on the Isle of Wight for Harry Spencer to rig its mast and antenna, and then, while the ship was on route, the Captain was ordered to change course and sail for Greenore, Ireland. When the mv Mi Amigo suffered storm damage to its mast, it had already left Greenore and it had to put in for emergency repairs at Falmouth, England! Ian Cowper Ross is making stuff up as he goes along!
RAY CLARK: So the original plan wasn't for that ship to go to Greenore at all then. It was to go straight off to station.
IAN COWPER ROSS: No. None of this would have happened in the way it did happen - or, I don't think, in the way that we would have wished it to happen - if they hadn't got blown off course and got caught in a storm and had to come to Greenore, whereupon they were in Ronan's power. Then he could control the situation and we made a deal with them to have the two ships... We had Caroline North and Caroline South - the Mi Amigo, that was the name of the other ship and our ship was the Caroline, and we were Radio Caroline South - oh actually, funnily enough no, we sailed north. I remember sailing north. We went north. Me and Chris went north. Everybody turned on their headlights as we went up. This is afterwards. I'm getting ahead of myself.
4/11/2021: Now Ian Cowper Ross is confusing himself by ad-libbing his own fibbing.
IAN COWPER ROSS: So, anyway, the ship gets on station and I think the Mi Amigo was still effectively impounded so we had a clear run. We had this press conference. That was another tremendous piece of comedy because our offices originally were in Queen magazine's building in Fetter Lane. Jocelyn sort of had this highly ambivalent attitude towards the whole project, and the public in general, but he was the chairman of it - or he wasn't - and he wanted to be incognito. We had this press conference where he appeared in his British warm overcoat and a trilby pulled over his face! As if the whole press corps didn't know who he was! Jocelyn Stevens - the heir-apparent to the Mirror building. I think he was the godson of (chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers) Cecil King. His building could look up at the Mirror building. He was a proper Fleet Street mogul. He was a Harmsworth and of the other family, you know... Hulton - Hulton and Harmsworth. He was a blue-blooded Fleet Street press baron, anyway, incognito according to him!
4/11/2021: The first programs heard on Radio Caroline were recorded in a studio at 47 Dean Street, home of Project Atlanta Limited and Allan James Crawford. The first Radio Caroline DJs were trained by Australian staff hired by Allan James Crawford. There was no "Radio Caroline" company, and its airtime sales company was only registered in Ireland during February 1964. The address given out on air and printed on its first literature was a convenience address on Regent Street. There were no "offices" inside the tiny premises used by Stevens Press Limited on Fetter Lane. Ian Cowper Ross is deliberately hiding the true relationship with Jocelyn Stevens who told the press that he was representing Radio Caroline. The very name 'Caroline' had been 'borrowed' from the 'Queen' magazine style sheet, and this was confirmed by reputable sources at the time!
IAN COWPER ROSS: (Irish accent) “Come on everybody”. So Ronan appears with this enormous radio and all these Fleet Street hacks are sat there drinking and he switches it on - nothing. Nothing happens. It was a complete fiasco. (Irish accent) “Oh hang on a minute, it will be...” and it turned out that because Fetter Lane is surrounded, literally, by the Mirror building and all these steel structures, there was no signal. Our signal was not reaching Fetter Lane and that seemed a bloody disaster. So myself and Bunty, we set off in... this may have happened before actually - I may have got this the wrong way round - we went in the MG.
We whizzed around Kent and Sussex and Simon Dee was on board with Chris. I remember the call-sign was ‘ding-ding 199’ and the code word was ‘genius’ and he would play Ray Charles. He would play I've Got News For You I think or it may have been Night Time is the Right Time and we would pick this up and the call sign was ‘genius’. That meant Ray Charles. So we whizz around Kent and Sussex in the night, listening to this thing. Sure enough, the signal was absolutely fine. The only problem was that Simon Dee had refused to go on the air and locked himself in his cabin. So Chris had to do the whole thing by himself, including pulling the switch and, if you think about it, that was a revolution. It was a revolutionary act to pull that switch.
He tied the ship's bell round Simon's neck. He got a spoon and he hit the bell like that. The sound of the call-sign is him hitting the bell round Simon Dee's neck with this spoon - who had failed to be a proper revolutionary - thought he was going to be put in prison (laughs). It was unbelievably funny. There wasn't anything wrong with the signal. It just didn't reach Fetter Lane. So Ronan then did one of his many acts of genius. He got his hands on this MP, a Welsh chap. I remember he had one arm. He somehow was prevailed upon to get up in the House of Commons and say to the Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, “what are you going to do about these pop radio pirates off the North Sea on this thing called Radio Caroline?” which no one had ever heard of until that moment.
And there was an uproar that some illegal person was broadcasting into the British Isles from a ship off the three mile limit - it was three miles in those days - and they were all horrified. They played precisely into Ronan's hands. They sent a gun boat, if you please, they sent a gun boat which came out to the ship; went round and round the ship. Everybody's going like this, people were throwing bottles of beer to the sailors and back, the sailors were laughing, you know “what are they going to do? Are they going to blow it out of the water?” and of course it hit the headlines just as Ronan would have wished and everybody knew about it suddenly. Like that. Sir Alec sent the gunboat.
4/11/2021: Ian Cowper Ross now begins playing up the mythology of Ronan O'Rahilly to such an extent that his fables are now clashing with the documented events as reported in the press at the time, and with the geopolitical interpretations as reported by the so-called 'quality press' in the UK. It was reported quite accurately why the mv Fredericia was anchored off the coast of south east England and which set of laws it was testing.
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