Claim
Claim 172
Broadcasters had actors read interview transcripts in place of the banned speakers' own voices, with actor Stephen Rea voicing Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams as clearly and neutrally as possible.
- Statement
- Broadcasters had actors read interview transcripts in place of the banned speakers' own voices, with actor Stephen Rea voicing Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams as clearly and neutrally as possible.
- Field
- effect_on_reporting
- Value
- Actors voiced the transcripts
- Source
- When Gerry Adams was played by an Oscar nominee, and the IRA weren't allowed talk about sausages archived copy
- Publisher
- TheJournal.ie
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-22
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
- Source date
- 2018-01
Quotation from the source
as clearly and neutrally as possible