Businessman ‘knee-capped’
NZPA-Reuter Dublin Security for hundreds of Irish-based British executives may be tightened after a top British Leyland director was shot in the legs by men who said they were Provisional Irish Republican Army sympathisers in Dublin yesterday. Mr Geoffrey Armstrong, • BL's director' of employee relations, ,was addressing Dublin’s Junior Chamber of Commerce at Trinity College when three men, two' disguised with balaclavas and the third with a scarf, burst in. After firing shots at his
legs one of the attackers shouted: “This is in support of the H-block protest.” But the National H-block Committee, which co-ordi-nates support for the political status campaign, and the 1.R.A., have denied responsibility for the attack. Mr Armstrong, aged 35, was taken to Meath Hospital in Dublin where doctors were to decide today whether he could be allowed home. His wounds were said to be not serious. The attackers did not apparently intend to kill him, but to injure him in a Provisional IRA-type “knee-cap- : Ping”. • i
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Press, 26 March 1981, Page 6
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