Brighton Anniversary: Day the Ira Tried to Kill Our Cabinet ; Chris Moncrieff, Who Was Press Association's Political Editor at the Time of the Brighton Bombing Looks Back On the Day the Ira Tried to Wipe Out the Cabinet

Birmingham Post › October 11, 2004

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It was the most audacious and spectacular attack yet mounted by the IRA, although the toll in lives and injuries was far less than in many other of its atrocities.

But the Brighton Bomb of October 12, 1984, 20 years ago tomorrow, which devastated the seafront Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference, totally failed to achieve the objectives of its perpetrators.

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Brighton Anniversary: Day the Ira Tried to Kill Our Cabinet ; Chris Moncrieff, Who Was Press Association's Political Editor at the Time of the Brighton Bombing Looks Back On the Day the Ira Tried to Wipe Out the Cabinet

It did not kill the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher nor any members of her Cabinet.

Five other people lost their lives and many were injured, includin...

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