Researching Tony Geraghty
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 275 people with the Geraghty surname? In that year Geraghty was ranked number 3304 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Tony means "Form of ANTHONY. priceless" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Tony Geraghty on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Tony Geraghty and the Geraghty Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 2132 people with the Geraghty surname in the UK? Geraghty is now ranked number 2267 for popularity in the UK. |
Geraghty Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Geraghty surname in the USA? Geraghty is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty (born 13 January 1932) is a British-Irish writer and journalist. He served in the Parachute Regiment, and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal for his work as a military liaison officer with U.S. forces during the Gulf War. He has been a journalist for The Boston Globe and was the Sunday Times Defence Correspondent in the 1970s.
Geraghty was born in Liverpool to an Irish Catholic family. He was educated at the London Oratory.
During the Falls Curfew in July 1970, while on assignment for the Sunday Times, Geraghty was arrested at gunpoint by a British soldier and charged with impeding the army by being on the street against a military order, which carried an automatic prison sentence on conviction. In September 1970 a magistrate ruled he had no case to answer, and acquitted him.
His 1998 book The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence was written following research which included interviews with members of British Intelligence, the security forces, and the Provisional Irish Republican Army. It describes the various tactics, both military and political, used by the protagonists in the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Publishers Weekly called the book "highly opinionated" but praised "its attention to detail and its direct, potent writing." Library Journal said "[t]he role of British Intelligence in Ulster has never been so deeply explored".
On 3 December 1998 Geraghty's house was searched and he was interviewed by the Ministry of Defence Police and in May 1999, he was charged with breaching section 5 of the Official Secrets Act 1989 on the basis that he quoted from classified army documents in the book. The army was concerned that in mentioning their Caister/Crucible computer intelligence databases for tracking the population of Northern Ireland, and the Vengeful-Glutton number plate recognition and vehicle tracking system, he might have been in possession of copies of the documents.
The case was dropped in November 2000.
He has written several books on the Special Air Service. The Bullet Catchers is a history of close protection bodyguards.
He is the godfather of magician’s assistant Debbie McGee.
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