Rory Nugent
SPIN DNA: Groundbreaking Investigative Journalist Rory Nugent ‘Inside the IRA’
In this ongoing series, we revisit some of our most memorable moments with SPIN’s journalists, photographers and editors. Writer Rory Nugent started working with SPIN in 1993, brought in by our then Features Editor Elizabeth Mitchell. He hit it off with Editor in Chief Bob Guccione Jr, who was looking for the right writer to get inside the Irish Republican Army, who had been terrorizing Britian for decades. And as they say, the rest is history… And what history he made. With his incredible adventures inside the IRA, after which, in the article, he correctly predicted the so-called Good Friday peace treaty with the British government. Or that time the news declared him deceased. Or when his boat capsized and he was adrift for days in the ocean. And his time in Sudan, where he wa...
