# Kew Files: What happened when the Garda arrested the SAS men Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/kew-files-what-happened-when-the-garda-arrested-the-sas-men Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/kew-files-what-happened-when-the-garda-arrested-the-sas-men.md Podcast: [The BelTel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912) Published: 2026-04-19T23:05:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-beltel/episodes/kew-files-what-happened-when-the-garda-arrested-the-sas-men Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/e/69e1fa6d0b4baf3bf22c0d21/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/kew-files-what-happened-when-the-garda-arrested-the-sas-men Duration seconds: 2517 ## Resource When a lone Garda decided to arrest a squad of SAS men found in the Republic of Ireland on 1976, little did he know he had sparked an international incident which would involve the Taoiseach and Prime Minister – or that it would see the Irish government interfere with the justice system. Top secret files have revealed how the PM drew up a law to let two SAS men go on the run from the Irish but that in fact Dublin was determined that the soldiers would never do time.  Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland editor Sam McBride discovered the file at the National Archives in Kew, London.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/kew-files-what-happened-when-the-garda-arrested-the-sas-men/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/kew-files-what-happened-when-the-garda-arrested-the-sas-men.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.