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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 Brighton's 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 injuring dozens of others. Five people were killed in the IRA blast Conservative councillor for Han...

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 sentences for his part in the 1984 attack at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, which claimed the lives of five p...