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Originally posted by razzmatazaz razzmatazaz wrote:

Could you park Irish reg cars unattended in Belfast as recently as the mid-nineties or were the army still doing controlled explosions of them in case they were car bombs? I have the vaguest memory of my mother parking her car somewhere and it becoming an issue for some reason. 
During the troubles, any car left parked in some random spot was often treated as a security alert.

Eg - One day, our car broke down on our way home from a family holiday and it wouldn't start again. We had to leave it (on the hard shoulder on the road from Newry to Warrenpoint) and get a taxi home. Once we got home, Dad phoned the police to let them know about the car and that it was nothing for them or the army (who regularly carried out patrols) to be concerned about and that he would get it towed to a garage the next morning.
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Originally posted by ConorMac77 ConorMac77 wrote:

Originally posted by razzmatazaz razzmatazaz wrote:

Could you park Irish reg cars unattended in Belfast as recently as the mid-nineties or were the army still doing controlled explosions of them in case they were car bombs? I have the vaguest memory of my mother parking her car somewhere and it becoming an issue for some reason. 
During the troubles, any car left parked in some random spot was often treated as a security alert.

Eg - One day, our car broke down on our way home from a family holiday and it wouldn't start again. We had to leave it (on the hard shoulder on the road from Newry to Warrenpoint) and get a taxi home. Once we got home, Dad phoned the police to let them know about the car and that it was nothing for them or the army (who regularly carried out patrols) to be concerned about and that he would get it towed to a garage the next morning.


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Reading Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick at the moment. Harold Wilson devised a plan in the commons for Irish unity within 15 years as far back as the early 1970s. The subject of Irish reunification was also broached with the Taoiseach a few years before that and the British were surprised at how negatively the Irish reacted to the possibility. Every day is a school day.
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Read "Killing Thatcher" recently, definitely would recommend. Patrick Magee was some volunteer.

Imagine they weren't caught before all the other planned bombs. 
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Originally posted by Deane Deane wrote:

Read "Killing Thatcher" recently, definitely would recommend. Patrick Magee was some volunteer.

Imagine they weren't caught before all the other planned bombs. 

Did you get that on the Daily Deal on Amazon as well? Less than a pound. Noice. That's on my to-do list after the wan I'm reading now.
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It’s Dr. Patrick Magee these days, he got a Ph.D in jail. Very nice guy and highly intelligent. Though I never did understand why he used the alias “ Roy Walsh” when that was the real name of a high level Provo. UVF supergrass the late Joe Bennett did something similar when he was arrested in Derby for armed robbery in the 80s, having gone there to retire well away from vengeful ex comrades in Belfast. He called himself “John Graham”( real name of UVF Chief of Staff ).
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Could have been the work of a splinter group.
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Originally posted by Green Cockade Green Cockade wrote:

Could have been the work of a splinter group.

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Originally posted by Green Cockade Green Cockade wrote:

Could have been the work of a splinter group.

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