How Scots snapper covered only IRA funeral on UK mainland
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots photographer has revealed how he was called in to cover the only paramilitary IRA funeral ever held on the UK mainland.Brian Anderson, 55, received a late-night call at his Glasgow home from Salford gangster Paul Massey.Told to drive to Manchester, he came face to face with hardened gangland figures and paramilitaries at the funeral of the former IRA member, Kevin ‘Tiny’ Donaghey.
Later draped in the tricolour, Donaghey’s coffin was carried through the streets of Salford by balaclava-wearing pallbearers.Mourners then fired a gun salute as the coffin was lowered into the grave.Anderson, 55, said: “Paul Massey was Mr Big in Manchester.
He phoned me and asked if I could be in Salford for sunrise because he had something really good for my book.“I jumped at the chance.
When I arrived I got taken into a room full of Irish and Salford guys. There was a guy in a coffin and people were crying. I was told, ‘Take the f***ing picture, wee man.
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