From the Archives: August 29th, 1979

The weekend it murdered Lord Mountbatten, off Mullaghmore in Co Sligo, the IRA also killed 18 British soldiers in an ambush at Narrow Water, in Co Down. Another casualty that day was an English visitor shot dead by British soldiers who thought they were under fire. Fionnuala O Connor visited the area the next day





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