IRA explosives and attacks
- Title
- IRA explosives and attacks
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 13 Jul 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:03:18
- Description
- Ken Johnston reports from Northern Ireland on IRA attacks on the security forces and the discovery of 2 tons of explosives on a truck at the port of Heysham near Liverpool. Police believe the cache formed the basis for a massive IRA mainland bombing campaign coinciding with loyalist marches across Northern Ireland. Includes report on a mortar bomb attack on an RAF helicopter in south Armagh as it left Newtownhamilton airbase. Includes recording of Orange parade; interviews with Ann(?) Murray, eyewitness to helicopter attack; male pilot of helicopter (not identified); Cardinal Cahal Daly, Archbishop of Armagh. Originally broadcast on Downtown Radio.
- Contributors
- Downtown Radio; Ken Johnston; Cahal Daly; Ann(?) Murray
- Keywords
- Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; Great Britain; IRA; Weapons; Marches; Army; RAF; Bombs; Armagh; Explosives; Helicopters; Newtownhamilton
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