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“Very few tears” would have been shed in parts of the UK or Ireland if the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing killed Margaret Thatcher, former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has claimed.

“Very few tears” would have been shed in parts of the UK if the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing killed Margaret Thatcher, former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has claimed.

Gerry Adams Says Few Would've Shed Tears If Thatcher Died In Brighton Bomb, news, music news, Ireland

In this extract from his new book, Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown, Rory Carroll recounts the moment the bomb went off, the devastation it caused and the prime minister’s immediate reaction

The gripping inside story of the 1984 Brighton bombing, its victims, and its unintended consequences

Four decades ago, a hotel bomb nearly claimed the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her ministers. Can we still feel the aftershocks?

Margaret Thatcher only narrowly escaped the IRA bomb explosion in Brightons Grand Hotel in 1984, which caused extensive damage and two deaths.

A CONSERVATIVE councillor has branded a former newspaper editor’s comments “sick” and “disgusting”. Roy Greenslade, who has a home in Brighton and previously edited the Daily Mirror, announced he believed the IRA bombings were “justified” in an article for the March edition of the British Journalism review. In the early hours of October 12, 1984, an IRA bomb was detonated at The Grand hotel on Brighton seafront during the Conservative Party’s conference, killing five and i...

Brighton bomber Patrick Magee urges unionists to take ownership of united Ireland debate The aftermath of the 1984 Grand Hotel bombing in Brighton Connla Young Patrick Magee, the man behind the Brighton bomb, and Jo Berry A former IRA man who planted the bomb which almost killed Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet has appealed to unionists to "take ownership" of any future negotiations for a united Ireland. Belfast man Patrick Magee was given eight life sentenc...