Colin Murphy: Sloppy slip or serious security breach, Signal text fiasco puts truth on trial
Transcript of group chat discussing US attack on Houthis met with mix of damning shrieks and dismissive shrugs
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth (left) and vice-president JD Vance featured in the leaked Signal chat about strikes against Houthis. Photos: AP
My first proper job in Irish journalism was editing tribunal transcripts for Vincent Browne’s nightly radio programme.
I became a transcripts nerd. My first play was an attempt to reconstruct a transcript of the night of the bank guarantee. My play The Treaty was partly based on transcripts of British cabinet discussions in 1921. Charlie Bird brought me the transcripts of a series of interviews he had done about the marriage referendum, and they became another play, A Day in May.
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