Bombers caught
NZPA Clough, Ireland The police in the Irish Republic arrested two suspected Irish Republican Army guerrillas near, the border with Northern Ireland early yesterday as they lay fast asleep beside the detonator for a 250 kg bomb planted in the north to ambush British security forces. The explosives, packed into four metal beer kegs and a milk churn, were wired to the detonator on top of a small hill 200 m inside the Irish Republic. The bomb was hidden in a
hedge on a narrow country road in the north’s County Fermanagh, where the almost exclusively Roman Catholic I.R.A. has murdered scores of rival Protestants in recent years. The swoop came amid mounting unrest among Northern Ireland’s millionstrong Protestant majority over the British Government’s failure to curb the I.R.A. and moves by London and Dublin to by-pass the Protestants’ bitter refusal to share power with the Catholic minority in the province.
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Press, 28 October 1981, Page 8
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