IRA bombing at border
- Title
- IRA bombing at border
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 20 May 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:03:33
- Description
- Press interview with Northern Ireland Secretary Douglas Hurd condemning an IRA landmine attack which killed four RUC police officers at a border crossing on the Belfast to Dublin Road in Newry, County Down. (The dead were named as Inspector James Wilson, 28; Constable Tracey Ellen Doak, 21; Constable David Baird, 22; Reserve Constable Steven Rodgers, 19).
- Contributors
- Douglas Hurd
- Keywords
- Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Terrorists; IRA; Homicide; Policemen; RUC; Land mines; Borders; County Down; Newry
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LBC/IRN, "IRA bombing at border". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0010300034020 (Accessed 12 Jun 2025)