Charlie Bird’s last story: Ransom ’79 – How a 40-year-old unsolved mystery helped to keep his mind alive in the depths of his illness
Colin Murphy recalls how the documentary film ‘Ransom ‘79’ came about – and what it meant to Charlie and to him. Ransom ’79 is on Virgin Media One on Monday, 24 March at 9pm.
Ransom ’79
The old hack called the old cop. “Have you any stories for me?”
It was 2021. A decade retired from RTÉ, Charlie Bird had agreed to do a series of podcasts for the magazine Senior Times and was looking for material. A contact suggested he try the retired head of the fraud squad, ‘Four Goals’ Willie McGee (so named after his feat for Mayo in an under-21 All-Ireland final).
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