The director, Neil Clerkin, met the former Police Constable Jimmy Binns as a passenger in his taxi. Jimmy Binns has also discussed the levels of state collusion during the troubles in Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned (2017.)
The 'bloody hands' scene was shot on the same road where the 'B-Specials' shot and killed 2 sets of catholic brothers from the MacGeehan and Higgins families on the 19th May 1922. It was concluded at an inquest that all 4 men were innocent victims of an attack by state endorsed law enforcers. 100 years of and Act of Union