{"id":350610,"date":"2026-03-17T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350610\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:41:09","slug":"shergar-the-racehorse-and-the-ira-review-documentary-on-kidnapping-of-the-famed-horse-canters-over-well-trodden-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350610\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shergar: The Racehorse and the IRA\u2019 review: Documentary on kidnapping of the famed horse canters over well-trodden turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Virgin Media documentary seems to be aimed at an international audience unfamiliar with the Irish cultural landscape of the 1980s, and why Shergar was such an important symbol of national pride\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The majestic Shergar, who was stolen from his stable by an IRA gang in 1983, is likened to the equivalent of a Ferrari in a new documentary. Photo: Virgin Media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/acbe0b1a-c523-4f2e-893e-5ec3f9051526.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The majestic Shergar, who was stolen from his stable by an IRA gang in 1983, is likened to the equivalent of a Ferrari in a new documentary. Photo: Virgin Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You might find yourself wondering during Shergar: The Racehorse and the IRA (Virgin Media One, Wednesday, March 18, and on Virgin Media Play) why veteran investigative journalist Peter Murtagh is delivering a mini-lesson in Irish history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The reason is this two-part documentary, which Channel 4 will also be showing, is clearly aimed at an international audience who might have little to no knowledge of the political backdrop to the 1983 kidnapping by the IRA of racing\u2019s most valuable horse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Virgin Media documentary seems to be aimed at an international audience unfamiliar with the Irish cultural landscape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,9617],"class_list":["post-350610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}