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‘Today we were unlucky,” the IRA said in an infamous statement claiming responsibility for the Brighton bomb in 1984. While five people had been killed, their target, Margaret Thatcher, emerged unscathed. “But remember we have only to be lucky once,” the IRA sneered. “You will have to be lucky always.”
Four decades ago, a hotel bomb nearly claimed the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her ministers. Can we still feel the aftershocks?
The inside story on how a high-profile IRA bomb team was tracked down and captured has been revealed on a new book about an attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher almost 40 years ago.
THE author of a new book about the IRAs attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher believes the arrest of the man responsible along with other republicans delivered a "significant" blow to the organisation.
Patrick Magee (pictured) is the Brighton bomber. he masterminded the devastating attack on the Conservative Party's 1984 conference which left five people dead and nearly killed Margaret Thatcher.