"Derek Thompson was one of the best-known sports broadcasters in Britain and Ireland back in 1983 when he suddenly got a call in the middle of the night about the vanished wonder horse Shergar."
"On the night before he received the call, a gang, later thought to be members of the IRA, had seized the horse valued at £10m - about €46m in today's money - from the Aga Khan's Ballymany stud on the Curragh in Co Kildare."
In 1983, Derek Thompson, a renowned sports broadcaster in Britain and Ireland, received an unexpected middle-of-the-night call regarding Shergar, a valuable stallion worth £10 million (approximately €46 million today). The horse had been seized from the Aga Khan's Ballymany stud on the Curragh in County Kildare by a gang believed to be IRA members. Thompson was apparently involved in shuttle negotiations across the North in an attempt to secure the horse's safe return. A new Virgin Media One documentary explores this extraordinary episode, detailing Thompson's involvement in the dramatic ransom negotiations surrounding one of horse racing's most famous disappearances.
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