Episode 4: Operation Yurta
Assume Nothing26 Huhti 2025

Episode 4: Operation Yurta

The story of two journalists who investigated an unsolved mass murder in Northern Ireland.

Six men were shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in the Height’s Bar, Loughinisland on the 18th June 1994. No-one has ever been charged or convicted.

Episode 4 – Operation Yurta

On the day of the film’s Belfast premiere, police announce a new investigation – into the suspected theft of sensitive documents from the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland.

Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney are arrested nine months later and their homes and offices are searched.

While they are questioned about four offences - theft, handling stolen goods, unlawfully disclosing personal data and offences under the Official Secrets Act - their legal teams must make an urgent decision.

Readings by

Ian Davidson Steven Calvert Aoibheann McCann Antoinette Morelli

A BBC Northern Ireland production

Jaksot(210)

6. The Cottage

6. The Cottage

A journalist gets a tip that a political backroom man who’s just confessed to being a spy is living in the wilds of Donegal. He sets out to track him down and secure a major scoop. The old, whitewashe...

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5. In the Public Interest

5. In the Public Interest

The dust has barely settled on the shock news that prosecutors have dropped all charges against three men accused of running a republican spy ring in government, when one of them makes a jaw dropping ...

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4. Disclosure

4. Disclosure

Four people are arrested when police swoop to break up what they claim is a republican spying network operating at the heart of Northern Ireland’s volatile government. A convoluted legal process ends ...

31 Tammi 13min

3. Politically Pear Shaped

3. Politically Pear Shaped

A massive surveillance operation into IRA intelligence gathering has led police to the home of a political party administrator. They recover material they believe to have been stolen from government o...

24 Tammi 10min

2. The Easy Art of Espionage

2. The Easy Art of Espionage

Police investigating a daring break in, supposedly by the IRA, at their counter terrorism unit’s headquarters get a tip off. Apparently, there’s another republican intelligence operation happening and...

17 Tammi 11min

1. Agent of Influence

1. Agent of Influence

A daring raid at the Belfast headquarters of Special Branch, the police counter terrorism unit, triggers a massive investigation. The finger of blame is pointed at the IRA, at a time when the paramili...

10 Tammi 13min

15. A Political Call

15. A Political Call

In August 2020 Katie Simpson was brutally murdered by Jonathan Creswell, the partner of her older sister.For months he convinces her family, the hospital, the pathologist and even the police that she'...

27 Joulu 202525min

Episode 14: Curiosities

Episode 14: Curiosities

A woman says she's visited by men who she says tell her there is no point in pursuing Jonathan Creswell after she reported him for stealing her horse. Another is told police couldn't arrest him when s...

20 Joulu 202513min

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