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Any books about the Dublin and Monaghan bombing that go by the FG belief it was IRA not Loyalists

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  • #122
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,973 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124450501#Comment_124450501

    I don't recall any other politician claiming that his opinions were the very embodiment of a nation as a whole - well, except Carson.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #123
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,973 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124450366#Comment_124450366

    That's some laugh. You've contributed a crackpot theory that the coordinated loyalist bombs planted in Dublin were actually IRA lads going for a sambo

    Or maybe they were waiting for Burgerland to open, several years later, and just didn't have a sufficiently long timer

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #124
    Francis McM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,552 ✭✭✭Francis McM


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124452001#Comment_124452001

    I actually wrote ( post no. 63 on this very thread) :

    "I wrote some people may be of the opinion they were pIRA bombs which were assembled south of the border…

    Personally I think it was more likely northerners who drove them south.

    But as the OP said, different theories on what could have happened, for all sorts of reasons. No M50 in them days either of course.

    As we do not know the facts I personally would keep an open mind. One thing I learnt over the decades is things were often not as they seemed. As we know now there were many double agents etc."

    I also wrote " the majority of bombs during the troubles were Republican. And the Dublin / Monaghan bombings were claimed by loyalists 19 years after the bombings happened." I also wrote that I think the bombs probably came from the north, even though the vast majority of bombs which crossed the border during the troubles went the other way of course. I pointed out estimates in 1972 90% of the bombs involving Home-Made Explosives (HMEs) used by the pIRA originated from south of the border, and in 1981 88.7% of explosives used in N Ireland originated from the Republic of Ireland. And we know that later on in the 1980s the semtex etc came through the Republic.

    Even in 1998 there was a massive 1000 lb bomb discovered at Dun Laoghaire Ferry Port, bound for England."

    Do you think the Dublin Monaghan bombs had any effect on the hundreds if not thousands of tonnes of bombs made in the Republic and sent to the UK?



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