'Few Tears' Would Have Been Shed If IRA Killed Thatcher, Says Ex-Leader Of Sinn Fein
The Independent|May 09, 2023
“Vey few tears” would have been shed in parts of the UK if the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing killed Margaret Thatcher, former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has claimed.
MARTHA MCHARDY
'Few Tears' Would Have Been Shed If IRA Killed Thatcher, Says Ex-Leader Of Sinn Fein

The 1984 IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party conference killed five and injured 31. MP Sir Anthony Berry was killed, along with party chair Eric Taylor, and the wives of three Tory MPs – Lady Jeanne Shattock, Lady Muriel Maclean and Roberta Wakeham. However, Mrs Thatcher was uninjured in the bombing.

On an episode of The Rest Is Politics podcast, presented by Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, Mr Adams said: “There would be very few tears shed for Margaret Thatcher in Republican Ireland, or in many villages in Wales and working-class Scotland and England itself.”

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