When Gerry Adams was played by an Oscar nominee, and the IRA weren't allowed talk about sausages

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https://www.thejournal.ie/broadcast-ban-uk-30-years-3816443-Jan2018/ archived copy

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reporting

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2026-11-07

Archived copy

https://web.archive.org/web/20261017094134/https://www.thejournal.ie/broadcast-ban-uk-30-years-3816443-Jan2018/

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• United Kingdom bars broadcasters from airing Sinn Féin members' own voices
• Claim 171: The government said groups that lived by the bomb and the gun, and those who supported them, could not in all circumstances be given the same rights as the rest of the population.
• 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.
• Claim 173: Channel 4's head of news, on the ban being lifted, called it one of the most embarrassing attempts to censor coverage.

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