TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down
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BigFang OP t1_iuk887c wrote
Reply to comment by derpbynature in Intervention from Northern Ireland Office ‘prevented loyalist attack on Republic of Ireland’ - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk by BigFang
another link here on the same one. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40996103.html There was a recent bomb threat against a the Irish Minister for Foreign affairs, when he went North to tey to discuss the protocol