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Where Grieving Begins by Patrick Magee review — what the Brighton bomber did next | Ireland

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IRA Brighton bomber scouted Labour conference seven years earlier

IRA Brighton bomber scouted Labour conference seven years earlier Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: John Downing/Getty Images The IRA bomber who almost wiped out Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative cabinet in 1984 secretly scouted a Labour party conference in Brighton seven years earlier, he has disclosed. Patrick Magee surveilled the Brighton conference centre in October 1977 when the IRA sought to hit back at the then Labour government for its policies in Northern Ireland. Magee, who was convicted of murdering five people in the 1984 bombing of the Grand hotel, said he was part of an IRA team that visited the seaside town in 1977 to potentially target Labour government figures.

Roy Greenslade s IRA comments branded sick and disgusting

A CONSERVATIVE councillor has branded a former newspaper editor’s comments “sick” and “disgusting”. Roy Greenslade, who has a home in Brighton and previously edited the Daily Mirror, announced he believed the IRA bombings were “justified” in an article for the March edition of the British Journalism review. In the early hours of October 12, 1984, an IRA bomb was detonated at The Grand hotel on Brighton seafront during the Conservative Party’s conference, killing five and injuring dozens of others. Five people were killed in the IRA blast Conservative councillor for Hangleton and Knoll, Dawn Barnett, who remembers the horrific day well, said she is disgusted with Mr Greenslade’s comments.

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