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The bomb was placed outside the Ulsterbus depot on Broad Street, a main thoroughfare of Magherafelt. The bus station was entirely demolished by the blast and the town's Ulster Bank branch was damaged extensively; both were since redeveloped. Seamus Heaney wrote about the bombing in his poem Two Lorries. [2]
The RUC had been lured to the area by a hoax phone call claiming an armed robbery was in progress. The IRA had correctly anticipated which doorway the RUC would take cover in and detonated a small booby-trap bomb when they arrived. The IRA claimed his death was retaliation for "RUC brutality at republican funerals". [178] [190]
18 December 1971: three IRA volunteers (James Sheridan, John Bateson and Martin Lee) died in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, when the bomb they were transporting exploded prematurely. [ 28 ] 21 December 1971: a Catholic publican (John Lavery, aged 60) was killed when he picked up and attempted to remove a bomb that had been planted in his pub ...
4 May: a Catholic civilian (Victor Andrews, aged 20) was found stabbed to death in an entry off Baltic Avenue, New Lodge, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible. [10] [9] 14 May: a Catholic civilian (Gerard McCusker, aged 24) was found beaten and shot dead on waste ground at Hopeton Street, Shankill Road, Belfast. It is believed the ...
His death led to a surge in rioting in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland. [18] His cousin Thomas McElwee was the ninth hunger striker to die. Oliver Hughes, one of his brothers, was elected twice to Magherafelt District Council. [19] He is commemorated on the Irish Martyrs Memorial at Waverley Cemetery in Sydney, Australia. [20]
After the deaths, Caroline Donovan, chief executive of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), which deals with mental health, said Mr Kuczynski he had been "known to our services".
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, best known for his roles in Street Fighter and Necessary Roughness, has died.He was 61. The late actor's son Manoah confirmed his death in a Facebook post shared on Monday ...
Bradley Dawson is escorted through Lautoka High Court in Suva, Fiji, on Jan. 27, 2025. Dawson was convicted in the murder of his wife, Christie Chen, on their honeymoon in 2023.