michael heney

I am a former award-winning journalist and producer with RTE Television and have recently completed a PhD.

[michael heney @mickserh]

Delighted to have my book shortlisted in the An Post Book of the Year awards, non-fiction section. Should you wish to vote for my book, and see the other nominees, you can do so here; https://t.co/YwSM0rW4OB

[michael heney @mickserh]

the 1970 arms trials were recorded by order of the two judges, o'keefe and later, henchy. the tapes have since disappeared, except for the two i unearthed

[michael heney @mickserh]

there is no fantasy about my books findings, unless they appear to some a nightmare. evidence-based at every turn.

[michael heney @mickserh]

@WilliamFinnie7 hi willie
great to hear from you. heard our old colleague nico vermulien had passed away. nice man. you by contrast are still here. me too. thanks re book

[michael heney @mickserh]

My forthcoming book, the result of 6 years of academic research, will be published on the 2nd of April 2020. It is available for pre-order from the publisher Head of Zeus https://t.co/6CQh7sPuGR

[michael heney @mickserh]

thanks also to david mccullagh, andrew lynch (business post), david burke (village magazine), phoenix magazine, vincent browne, and diarmaid ferriter for warm commendations. The book has harsh judgements, but it is nuanced, layered, and careful.

[michael heney @mickserh]

Thanks to all reviewers, commentators who have given generous welcome to my highly-revisionist book. Especially Mary o'rourke, John bowman, eilis o'hanlon. No agenda. Just a search for the facts. No 1 again in the non fiction charts next saturday!

[michael heney @mickserh]

@mcculld thanks david - very generous of you. can i say re other tweets - no agenda. my only agenda was to find the facts, then connect the dots. all under military (academic) discipline from prof ferriter.

[michael heney @mickserh]

the conventional view of the arms crisis should have died in 2001, or shortly thereafter. a great failure of public discourse has cost us almost a further 20 years of confusion. time now to end it. 50 years! it is risible.

[michael heney @mickserh]

@JohnDowning2
read your piece today on 1970. have you seen my book, just published? contact me and I will get a copy to you
michael heney

[michael heney @mickserh]

@JohnDowning2 hi john, read your piece in indo today. have you read my book just published on arms crisis? contact me and i'll get a book to you
michael heney

[michael heney @mickserh]

Thanks to @EilisOHanIon for the review of my book in today's Irish Independent. https://t.co/2DnGwykPX7

[michael heney @mickserh]

@Mickcliff hi mick
I want to send you a copy of my new book on the 1970 arms crisis. could you give me your home address so the publisher can get a copy to you?
michael heney
0872856885
[email protected]

[michael heney @mickserh]

An extract of my new book was published in Saturday's Irish Independent. https://t.co/MWl0PZFYs4

[michael heney @mickserh]

The book provides the first comprehensive account of the many public and private falsehoods of Lynch’s ally, James Gibbons. Gibbons as a result is assessed to have ‘zero credibility’ in the Arms Crisis. Preorder available - https://t.co/6CQh7sPuGR

[michael heney @mickserh]

How honest was ‘honest Jack’? Not very, it seems; my book pinpoints 30 instances where Lynch made false or misleading statements on the Arms Crisis, many of these to the Dáil.' Preorder available - https://t.co/6CQh7sPuGR