The Troubles in Warrenpoint
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The Troubles in Warrenpoint recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Incidents in Warrenpoint during the Troubles
1976
1979
- 27 August 1979 - David Blair (40), Thomas Vance (23), Ian Rogers (31), Robert England (23), Jeffrey Jones (18), Gary Barnes (18), Anthony Wood (19), John Giles (22), Victor MacLeod (24), Leonard Jones (26), Robert Jones (18), Donald Blair (23), Nicholas Andrew (24), Raymond Dunn (20), Michael Woods (18), Peter Fursman (35), Christopher Ireland (25) and Walter Beard (33), all members of the British Army, were killed in two remote controlled bomb attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army at Narrow Water, near Warrenpoint. The first bomb was left in a parked lorry and detonated when the British Army lorry passed. The second bomb was left in a nearby Gate Lodge and was detonated when British Army reinforcements arrived at the scene of the first explosion. Michael Hudson (29), an English tourist, was shot dead by the British Army from across Narrow Water, near Omeath, County Louth, Republic of Ireland shortly afterwards. For more information see Warrenpoint ambush.
1989
