IRA BRIGHTON BOMBING 30TH ANNIVERSARY

GRAND HOTEL BRIGHTON

My view: When the IRA done their devastating in Ireland and eventually on the mainland of Britain the USA did not only not lift a finger to stop it but financed it. Yet, they always make sure that Britain get roped in when they started a war somewhere. Nice Friends!!!!

On 12 October,1984, the Conservative Party held their annual conference in Brighton. 2014 made it the 30 anniversary when the Ira planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel in Brighton.  The Ira planned to kill the whole British Government including Margaret Thatcher.

At 2.54am the bomb went off and killed five people and injured 31. Some were injured more then the others.

Lord Tebbit remembers it very well when the whole four floors disintegrated and they fell down.  His wife’s spine was crashed and she is still in a wheelchair. When the debris stopped fallen they were trapped. 

The bomber Patrick Magee checked into the Hotel few weeks before and put the bomb under the bath with a long timer in Room 629. He was jailed for 14 years and released due to the Good Friday Agreement which brought finally an end to all the killing in Northern Ireland and bombing there and on the mainland Britain. In those days there was every week some news of killing or bombing by the IRA. They fought hard to get Northern Ireland off Britain and unit it with Ireland.  Yet, in Northern Ireland there were not only the Catholics but also the Protestants, descendant of English ancestors who were determined to keep Northern Ireland as part of Britain. The result was a lost of murders, beating up and bombing.  The tope of the list was the Brighton bombing of which there was never such attempt to kill the whole British Government since the Gunpowder Plot under Westminster in 1605.

Lord Tebbit would only agree to meet Magee if he would reveal the name of the people who planned it and gave the order. This is very doubtful and therefore we can guess for sure that they will never meet.

According to Lord Tebbit the hero of them all was the senior fireman Fred Bishop.  He said to the other firemen: “Chaps, you know the rules. If that was a bomb we would have to wait for the bomb squad to give the all clear. I think it was a gas explosion, don’t you?” Without him many more people would have died because it would have taken too long to be brought out from the debris.

At the anniversary commemoration there was also Patrick Magee asked to attend. Jo Berry, 57, daughter of Sir Anthony who died there, asked Magee and she will be sitting side by side to demonstrate of two people sitting there and listening with respect to each other’s story.  She stated that she wants to bring something positive out of the trauma losing her father.